19/24 You are not the bride ?" "Yes, uncle," said Valmai, with blushing face and drooping eyelids. His name is Wynne, not Gwyn." "And you knew nothing about it until he came here yesterday ?" "Nothing; but that he had sailed in the _Burrawalla_, and when I heard she had returned a wild hope came to me, and when I heard his voice in the passage I could have fainted with joy." "And you are both united under may roof? Oh, uncle, don't be angry! It was not our own doing. It was Providence who sent him back to me from the storm and fog. _Don't_ be angry." "Angry, child!" said the old man, almost lifting himself up in his bed; "why Ay'm tarnished if anything so jolly ever happened in may laife before. |