[The Gentleman From Indiana by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gentleman From Indiana CHAPTER VI 26/30
"The moon makes people insane!" he cried. "If that is true," she returned, "then you need not be more afraid than I, because 'people' is plural.
What were you saying about----" "I _had_ heard them--in my heart.
When I heard your voice to-night, I knew that it was you who sang them there--had been singing them for me always." "So!" she cried, gaily.
"All that debate about a pretty speech!" Then, sinking before him in a deep courtesy, "I am beholden to you," she said. "Do you think that no man ever made a little flattery for me before to-night ?" At the edge of the orchard, where they could keep an unseen watch on the garden and the bank of the creek.
Judge Briscoe and Mr.Todd were ensconced under an apple-tree, the former still armed with his shot-gun. When the two young people got up from their bench, the two men rose hastily, and then sauntered slowly toward them.
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