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To Have and To Hold

CHAPTER IV IN WHICH I AM LIKE TO REPENT AT LEISURE
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Pride and temper! I set my lips, and vowed that she should find her match.
The storm did not last.

Ere we had reached Piersey's the rain had ceased and the clouds were breaking; above Chaplain's Choice hung a great rainbow; we passed Tants Weyanoke in the glory of the sunset, all shattered gold and crimson.

Not a word had been spoken.

I sat in a humor grim enough, and she lay there before me, wide awake, staring at the shifting banks and running water, and thinking that I thought she slept.
At last my own wharf rose before me through the gathering dusk, and beyond it shone out a light; for I had told Diccon to set my house in order, and to provide fire and torches, that my wife might see I wished to do her honor.

I looked at that wife, and of a sudden the anger in my heart melted away.


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