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The Quest of the Golden Girl

CHAPTER IX
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Returning home one evening, I met her at the lodge-gate hurrying away.

Our loves had been discovered, and my mother had shuddered to think that so pagan a thing had lived so long in a Christian house.

I vowed--ah! what did I not vow ?--and then we stole sadly together to comfort our aching hearts under cover of the woodland.

For the last time the wild cherry-tree bloomed,--wonderful blossom, glittering with tears, and gloriously radiant with stormy lights of wild passion and wilder hopes.
My faith lived valiantly till the next spring.

It was Hebe who was faithless.


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