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Again, a sudden gleam of light glanced through the forest, and, a moment after, the booming of another gun rolled away down the valleys, and over the rocks, with a faint, and then a loudly reviving echo. "Good bye, Gunilda," I said. She spoke not, nor moved; but her shoulders shook with a convulsive heaving. "Will you not shake hands with me?" I asked, my voice almost indistinct with emotion.
Still, she spoke not. I kneeled down, for Gunilda had reseated herself near her mother's grave, and raising her hand, I took it in mine, and pressed it. I felt the pressure returned, and allowing her small passive hand to fall gently again in her lap, I rose. "God bless you!" I said. She uttered a low, passionate cry, and then checking her anguish, murmured faintly,
That I may not weary you," Gunilda continued, "my father's vessel arrived in safety at her destined port; but, on her return homewards, a gale of wind arose, and the ship was stranded under the walls of the castle where the Circassian dwelt. My father and three other sailors were the only men saved from a crew of twenty-five." Gunilda stopped; and, turning towards me, said,
It was the same ring I had observed the first day I saw the Norwegian girl; and it was a plain circlet of solid gold, surmounted by a curiously-worked figure, having the beak and plumed wings of a bird, and the body and tail of a lion. "Since my mother's death I have worn it," said Gunilda sadly; and added, with a faint smile, "but when I wed, my husband will make his claim, no doubt."
By Gunilda's side lay a basket of fresh flowers, culled while yet the morning's dew was sparkling on them. "I did not think, sir, to see you again," said Gunilda, as soon as she had perceived me; and ceasing in her dutiful care of removing the weeds that had crept up since her last visit.
When I was at Cairo, an Arab gave it me, and bade, when I performed a deed that pleased me by its generosity, to part with it in token of the heart's content. "See!" said Gunilda, holding up her hand, "this is the ring;" and she kissed it.
R consulted D , and found it useless to get under weigh. As soon as I learned the decision that had been come to, I jumped into a boat, and began to row myself towards the mountain where I had met Gunilda. "Mind you keep a sharp look out," shouted R , to me, "for should the wind get up, we'll be off." I raised my hand in the air, in token of assent, and to intimate I heard what he said.
"One whose heart is so guileless can never know ingratitude," I replied. "But may I know your sorrows?" "Would you like to hear them, sir?" "I would." "As I told you, then, sir," Gunilda said, rising from her kneeling attitude, and sitting at my feet on the ground, "my father was a sailor.
"In our country, Norway, we are betrothed for many months before marriage; and I suppose, sir, this custom is observed, that the dispositions may assimilate; but, sir," observed Gunilda, retaining my attention by her earnest countenance of inquiry, "do you not think that two youthful creatures may love instinctively? Must the affections be always fostered by the caution of time?"
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