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As he held her throbbing palm he looked a little wonderingly into her flushed face and tear-gemmed eyes that acknowledged him lord and master without reserve; then he smiled and said in a low, half-humorous tone, "I shan't be an ogre to you you won't be afraid of me any longer, Miss Mildred?" "No," she replied impetuously; "you are the truest and best friend a woman ever had.
"One question will settle all: Can you return my love?" With that query light came into her mind as if from heaven. She saw that such love as theirs was the supreme motive, the supreme obligation. She rose and fixed her lovely, tear-gemmed eyes upon him searchingly as she asked, "Would you wed me, a beggar, dowered only with sorrow and bitter memories?"
Then the light and the thought ceased to pulse beneath the tear-gemmed eyelids, and with a tired sigh of comfort he sank into sleep. The table was of hand-hewn spruce boards, and the men who played whist had frequent difficulties in drawing home their tricks across the uneven surface.
There was a sudden flash of mirth through tear-gemmed eyes, a glance at the clock, then noiseless steps, and she was on her knees beside him, her arm about his neck, her blushing face near his wondering eyes as she breathed: "Happy Christmas, Hedley! How do you like your first gift; and what room is there now for hope?" It was the day before Thanksgiving.
But it wasn't a bar-room any longer; but a store full of goods. The sign of the 'Sickle and Sheaf' was taken down; and over the door I now read your name, father. Oh! I was so glad, that I awoke and then I cried all to myself, for it was only a dream." The last words were said very mournfully, and with a drooping of Mary's lids, until the tear-gemmed lashes lay close upon her cheeks.
Is there no love in thy bosom to leap in response to the love of thee that is my life?" She released him and whirled a pace or two away, draperies swirling, jewels scintillating cold fire in hopeless emulation of the radiance of her tear-gemmed eyes. "Naraini?" stammered Amber, recalling what he had heard of the woman. "Naraini!" "Aye, my lord, Naraini, thy wedded wife!"
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