[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER XXI 2/28
It would spoil you.
You will come and see us at Woodbine Villa! Only think how many things we have to talk of now." "May I ?" "Why, of course." "And will you wait two years for me ?" "Two years!" (blushing like a rose.) "Why, I hope it will not be two days before you come and see us." "Ah, you mock me." "No; no.
But suppose you should take the advice I gave you in my mad letter ?" "There's no fear of that." "Are you sure ?" (with a glance at Jael.) "Quite sure." "Then--good-by.
Please drive on." She wouldn't answer his question; but her blushes and her radiant satisfaction, and her modest but eloquent looks of love, fully compensated her silence on that head, and the carriage left him standing there, a figure of rapture. Next day Dr.Amboyne rode up to the farm with a long envelope, and waved it over his head in triumph.
It contained a communication from the Secretary of the Philanthropic Society.
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