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Updated: April 30, 2025
With a bound, swift and noiseless, he was on the veranda, just as the singer, with tender, lingering emphasis, repeated the words so low as to be barely audible to Darrell standing before the open window. But even while he listened he gazed in astonishment at the singer; could that magnificent woman be his girl-love?
His tone softened and his voice quivered a little as he bent over her. "Has any one else won away the heart of my little girl-love?" he asked. "We were sweethearts so long, Viva; but have you learned to care for some other?" "No. It it is not that." "Then cannot you find a little love for me left over from the childish days?
A very cordial friendship sprang up between them, not the effusive girl-love, with its iterative kisses, tears, and flow of loosened hair, but springing from the respect inspired by sound and positive qualities. The winter before, Betty had been invited to visit her friend in the city, and had passed a very excited and delightful week in the stately Bartram mansion.
Yes, girl-love is a kind of cup-custard, but wife-love is bread and butter milk toast, for instance bless her! But I am hungry!" The major's expression was a tragedy. "I'm going to try and beg you off, Major, dear," said Caroline Darrah, and she hurried after Mrs. Matilda into Tempie's domain. "Major," said David as he gazed after the girl, "when I look at her I feel cold all over, then hot-mad!
I told the old village headman, who was really the local judge, that in some of the wild parts of Firanghistan there were similar occurrences, and that the best form of reconciliation in the present instance would be 'wife for wife, the first offending family giving a girl-love to a husband-lover on the other side, and thus finally closing the quarrel in the happiest manner.
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