I could not love yen so terribly if you were not that perfection of womanhood to which all being is drawn.

Send me to do your bidding; I will have no will but yours.' How the light of rapture flashed athwart her face! It was hard for her to find words that would not seem too positive, too insubmissive.
'Only till you have lived with your father in the thought of this thing,' she murmured, 'and until I have taught myself to bear my happiness.

Are we not one already, dear?
Why should you needlessly make your life poorer by the loss--if only for a time--of all the old kindnesses?
I think, I know, that in a few days your mind will be the same as my own.

Do you remember how long it is since we first spoke to each other ?' 'Not so many days as make a week,' he answered, smiling.
'Is not that hard to believe?
And hard to realise that the new world is still within the old ?' 'Sweet, still eyes--give to me seine of your wisdom! But you have a terrible way of teaching calmness.' 'You will go straight to the Continent, Wilfrid ?' 'Only with one promise.' 'And that ?' 'You will bow to my judgment when I return.' 'My fate shall be in your hands.' They talked still, while the shadows of the ruins moved ever towards them.

All the afternoon no footsteps had come near; it was the sight of two strangers which at length bade Emily think of the time.