United States or South Sudan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I wonder what became of the other half what became of the girl if the lover married her if she knew enough to know he didn't marry her if she lived long enough for him to find out she was a fool if she was the last of the Rayniers?" As he ceased, he put the half of the little miniature into my hands.
You see yourself I will never " But his lips were silencing mine, and I lay there with those arms about me a moment; I lay there like one in heaven suspended over hell. "What do I care," he whispered, "for all the Rayniers in Christendom or out of it, but you? I have learned in this moment that you love me! I will never give you up." "You must," I groaned.
If you inherited all that the Rayniers ever had, then I love, I love, I love all that the Rayniers ever were, for I love you. I have your love, Helena, and I will never let you go." While speaking he had touched the bell at his hand, and now he sent the answering servant for Dr. Devens, who came at once, supposing some sight of the snow was in store.
And suddenly, before he ceased, and while they all thronged round me, there came a sharp strange sigh singing through the air, that grew into the wild discordant music of multitudinous echoes, and we all turned and sprang intuitively to see, rent in the moonlight and sheathed in the glorious spray of a thousand ice-falls, the Mount of Sorrow bow its head and come down, and, while the whole earth shook and smoked back in hoar vapors, the great snow-slide in its swift sheeting splendor flash and wipe out before our eyes the last timber of the hut and barn and byre of the Rayniers.
And all the Rayniers swore they would have his life sooner than he should have her.
But Nature was just as fair that ambrosial September day as if there was not a dissonance. Perhaps she knew the right of the Rayniers to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
"And the ruin on the hill-side is an eye-sore," I said. "But it is easy to remove it. I suppose it belongs to me. For look here it is I who must be the last of the Rayniers." And I drew from my breast the broken thing, the halved miniature, that in my mock sentiment I had worn so long. "You!" cried he. "You!"
Word Of The Day