"My woman!" She could feel the hard beating of his heart, and her slender body trembled in his arms with an answering passion that sprang from the depths of her being.

Forgetful of everything, save only of each other and their great love, their lips clung together.
Presently he tilted her head back.

Her face was white, the shadowed eyes like two dark stains on the ivory bloom of a magnolia.
"Beloved!.

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