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The sudden relief from the restraint he had borne so long made him lose command of himself altogether. He sprang quickly to his feet, and looking down at the fair averted face, said, with the love-light beaming in his eyes, "I love you, too, Katie." It was only after the words were spoken that he realized his amazing boldness. As he stood abashed, a warm, sweet hand crept into his.
There was no love-light in the drooping brown eyes before him. The syrah-stained lips were slightly parted, exposing the feverish gums, and short, black teeth. Her hands hung listlessly by her side, and only for the color that came and went beneath the rouge of her brown cheeks, she might have been dead to this last sacred act of their marriage vows.
It was a love affair that turned her brain, and I suppose this has much to do with her present hallucination." In measured tones he uttered this information, and it did not seem possible that the man was uttering a deliberate lie. Rose moved uneasily in her seat. His dark eyes, full of an intense love-light, were fixed on her face. He saw that his falsehood was having its effect.
It seemed to her the most natural thing in the world that she should marry Harold, and she was not at all abashed in speaking of it to Tom; but when outside they saw Harold coming up the walk, the color rushed to her cheeks, and her eyes grew wondrously bright with the love-light which shown in them, as she dropped Tom's arm and hurried to Harold's side.
And yet, he told himself assuming a second-hand garment of slightly cynical philosophy which suited singularly ill with the love-light in his eyes, there radiantly apparent for all the world to see that woman, even the one who first shows you you have a heart and a body too, worse luck even she is but a drop in the vast ocean of things. There remains all The Rest.
She takes possession of some large warrior who has lately arrived from the battle-fields of Umballa or Meerut, and she chaperones him about the rooms, staying him with flagons and prattling low nothings. The weaker vessel jibs a little at first; but gradually the spell begins to work and the love-light kindles in his eye.
"Why, I I almost hated him once." "And then you changed your mind," said Daisy. The love-light glowed softly in Olga's eyes as she answered, "Yes, dear Mrs. Musgrave; he made me." Daisy uttered a sharp, involuntary sigh. "I hope he is all you believe him to be," she said. "But why do you say that?" questioned Olga. "I'm afraid you don't like him." Daisy hesitated.
Perhaps even the memory of me is waning, is becoming dulled." But the softening love-light in the pictured eyes seems to contradict the conjecture. Here, in the hot brassy glare of the far wilderness, in the haunts of bloodshed and wrong, that sweet, pure image seems clothed as with a divinity to his hungry gaze.
She stopped, afraid to say more lest he should fall, but except that his arms twitched he did not move. "I am to be married to Lord Rintoul," she went on. "Now you know who I am." She turned from him, for his piercing eyes frightened her. Never again, she knew, would she see the love-light in them. He plucked himself from the spot where he had stood looking at her and walked to the window.
He was a generous, warm-hearted little man, with real wisdom and a fine appreciation of men and things.... There were other performers of the usual type, young men who sang about the love-light in her eyes, older men with crude songs, and a Scotsman with an expressionless face, who mumbled about we could never discover what.
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