[From the Housetops by George Barr McCutcheon]@TWC D-Link bookFrom the Housetops CHAPTER VI 45/57
"And what will be your attitude toward me if you _do_ succeed in preventing the marriage? Will you take me back as I was before this thing came up? Will you make me your wife, just as if nothing had happened? In view of my deliberate intention to deny you, will you forget everything and take me back ?" He put his hand to his throat, and for a moment appeared to be struggling against himself.
"I will take you back, Anne, as if nothing had happened, if you will say to me here and now that you will marry me to-morrow." She stared at him, incredulous.
Her heart began to beat rapidly once more and the anger died away.
"You would do that, knowing me to be what I am ?" "Knowing you to be what you _were_," he amended eagerly.
"Oh, Anne, you are worth loving, you are pure of heart and--" "If I will marry you to-morrow ?" she went on, watching his face closely. "Yes.
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