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"Dear did you ever learn that you are a 'Hidden Child'?" "What is that, Euan?" "Then you do not know?" She shook her head. And so I told her; told her also all that we had guessed concerning her; how that her captive mother, terrified by Amochol and his red acolytes, had concealed her, consecrated her, and, somehow, had found a runner to carry her beyond the doors of the Long House to safety.
"Are you ashamed you great, sulky and hulking boy to take my harmless pleasantry so uncouthly? And how is this?" says she, stamping her foot. "May I not laugh a little at my lover if I choose? I will have you know, Euan, that I do what pleases me with mine own, and am not to sit in dread of your displeasure if I have a mind to laugh." "It hurt me that you should make a mockery "
"But love is no unreal, unworthy thing, either; no sham, no trite cut-and-dried convention, made silly by sighs and vapours. "Oh, Euan, it is! I am so much more to you in my soul than if I merely loved you.
And, lest you deem me cold, thankless, inhuman, ask of yourself, Euan, why such a lonely girl as I should close her eyes and stop her ears and lock her heart and and turn her face away when the man to whom she owes all to whom she is utterly devoted urges her toward emotions toward matters strange to her and too profound as yet.
Her trembling hands clasped my shoulders tighter, and her face drew closer, so that her sweet, excited breath fell on my cheek. "Listen!" she stammered. "I desire to tell you everything! I will tell you all, Euan!
"Lois, what in the world are you babbling?" "Let me babble, Euan. Never have I been so happy, so content, so excited yet so confident.... Listen; do you dread tomorrow?" "Yes that I might not do you honour before your fashionable friends?... And I say to you, have no fear.
When all except the Siwanois are watching! The Night Hawk is there. Stretch yourself here beside me and try to sleep. Your watch will come too soon to suit you, or me either, for that matter." "Do you mean to go on guard with me?" "Do you dream that I shall let you stand your guard alone, young sir?" "This is folly, Lois " "Euan, you vex me. Lie beside me.
The fine frank-faced young coastguard touched his cap to the girls and waited to be spoken to. 'Euan, said Allan abruptly; speaking in Gaelic, which was always most convenient for the islanders if a conversation was likely to be long; 'we know about Neil. You were there; tell us about the trial. 'Well, Mr. Allan, it was a very bad business, and we none of us expected it to go as it did.
XXII. Marcellus, whose enemies opposed his claim to a triumph, on the ground that the campaign in Sicily was not completely finished, and that he did not deserve a third triumph, so far gave way as to lead the greater triumphal procession as far as the Alban Mount, and only to enter the city in the lesser form which the Greeks call euan, and the Romans an ovation.
I sat there, my knees gathered in my arms, staring up at the stars. Then, faintly came her voice: "Good-night, Euan." I rose, laid hold of the willow bush that scraped my shoulders, felt over it until I found the dangling broken branch; stepped forward, groping, until I touched the next broken branch.
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