He looked so strong and savage as he fought with it.

It is a fine thing to see a man put out all his strength.

And then he is such a gentleman!--so different from the men we meet round here.

Oh yes, I fell in love with him at once, and I have got deeper and deeper in love with him ever since, and if he does not marry me I think that it will break my heart.

There, that's the truth, Jess dear," and she dropped her golden head on to her sister's knees and began to cry softly at the thought.
But the sister sat there on the chair, her hand hanging idly by her side, her white face set and impassive as that of an Egyptian Sphinx, and the large eyes gazing far away through the window, against which the rain was beating--far away out into the night and the storm.