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Kelsey's family; for, touched with pity, that lady had offered to receive her, and during her brief stay treated her with every possible attention. Nellie, too, was very kind, ministering carefully to the comfort of her stepsister, who had ceased to be a rival, for well she knew J.C. De Vere would never wed a penniless bride and blind!
I love you, Alec, with all my heart, and if you wish me to be your wife I shall be proud and honoured. He took her in his arms, and as he kissed her, she wept tears of happiness. She did not want to think. She wanted merely to surrender herself to his strength. Lady Kelsey's devout hope that her party would finish without unpleasantness was singularly frustrated.
No weeds, no dead rose-bushes, no vampire ivy now; but an orderly garden, new planted and watered, and in the midst a small mound heaped with fresh-cut flowers. She had visited the child daily while he lived at Mrs Kelsey's; now she almost daily visited his grave. They dropped on their knees beside it, close as bride and bridegroom on altar steps, as father and mother at the firstborn's cradle.
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