He dared not, therefore, speak directly of that which both were thinking of; and yet he could not altogether ignore so sweet a subject.
"That is the moor yonder, Harry, over which I first came to Gethin--how long ago!" "Has the time, then, hung so very heavy on your hands ?" asked she, seriously.
"No, Harry, no; on the contrary, I have never been so happy; but when one has a new experience, however charming it may be, it seems to dwindle down one's past to nothing.

I have had two lifetimes, as it seems to me--one elsewhere, and one here; and yet it is but six weeks since I met you first, Harry, out yonder, gleaming like a sunbeam through the fog." "I remember it well," said Harry, with a slight shiver.
"But not to sigh about it, dear, I trust?
You are not afraid of me _now_, as you were then?
Do you recollect how scared you were when I called you back that day ?" "Yes, well," answered the young girl, earnestly.

"I had a reason for being scared, though you would laugh at me if I told you what it was." "Do I ever laugh at you, Harry, when you would have me serious ?" asked Richard, reproachfully.

"Come, tell me why you shrank from me--as you can not to-day, dear, for, see, I have got you close--and why your large eyes looked so wild and strange that I half thought you mad?
Did you take me for a ghost ?" "No; but I had just seen what is far worse than any ghost.

Did you not mark how pale I got that same night?
I thought I should have fainted when I was asked" (it was Solomon who had put the question, but Solomon's name was never mentioned between these two young people) "if I had ever seen a spectre ship.