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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XV
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The bearing of her onward was her abandonment to him.

Delicious as mountain air, the wind sang; it had a song of many voices.

Quite as much as on the mountains, there was the keen, the blissful, nerve-knotting catch of the presence of danger in the steep descents, taken as if swallowed, without swerve or check.

She was in her husband's hands.

At times, at the pitch of a rapid shelving, that was like a fall, her heart went down; and at the next throb exalted before it rose, not reasoning why;--her confidence was in him; she was his comrade whatever chanced.


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