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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER V
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Henrietta was closer to earth, for her features had been revealed; she was therefore the dearer, and the richer for him who loved her, being one of us, though an over-earthly one; and Carinthia gave her to Chillon, reserving for herself a handmaiden's place within the circle of their happiness.
This done, she sat straight in the car.

It was toiling up the steep ascent of a glen to the mountain village, the last of her native province.

Her proposal to walk was accepted, and the speeding of her blood, now that she had mastered a new element in it, soon restored her to her sisterly affinity with natural glories.

The sunset was on yonder side of the snows.

Here there was a feast of variously-tinted sunset shadows on snow, meadows, rock, river, serrated cliff.


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