9/26 I have rescued you from the grave, I have taught you what it is to live and love. Doubtless with your advantages and charms, your great charms, you will profit by the lesson. This is our farewell for awhile and I am brokenhearted. Yet "'Neath fairer skies Shine other eyes," and I--' and again he spoke so low that I could not catch his words. The scene was moving indeed, but it was not that which stirred me so deeply, it was the man's voice and bearing that reminded me--no, it could scarcely be! 'Oh! you will not be so cruel,' said the lady, 'to leave me, your wife, thus alone and in such sore trouble and danger. |