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Updated: June 26, 2025
He did not know, even, that Lawrence Prescott was at Elmira's side all the evening, and after his father arrived, and that Elmira danced every time with him, and set people talking and Doctor Prescott frowning. He knew only that he had followed Lucina about, and that she seemed to encourage him with soft, leading smiles.
"Lucina," he said, "I promise you before God, that I will never, so long as I live, love or marry any other woman but you. I promise you that I will work as I never did before my fingers to the bone, my heart to its last drop of blood to earn enough to marry you. And then, if you are free, I will come to you again.
When Lucina heard the fierce dash of it on her window-pane, like an angry dissent to her petition, she prayed more fervently, sobbing softly in the whiteness of her maiden bed; still it rained. The mighty body of snow, pierced in a thousand places by the rain as by liquid fingers, settled with inconceivable rapidity.
They were sacrificed at certain periods by the Greeks and Romans to almost all their deities, and particularly to Mars, Pluto, and Pan, to Minerva, Proserpine, and Lucina, and also to the moon, because the dog by his barking disturbed all charms and spells, and frightened away all spectres and apparitions.
She reflected how she had never even referred to the matter in question, in her suit for pardon. Lucina in those days was occupied with some pieces of embroidery in gay wools on cloth. There were varied designs of little dogs with bead eyes, baskets of flowers, wreaths, and birds on sprays.
She has asked me to this tea-party, and here I am hurting her by refusing, because I am so afraid of getting hurt myself!" Suddenly Jerome looked at Lucina, with a patient and tender smile that her father might have worn for her. "I shall be very happy to come," said he. "Not unless you can make it perfectly convenient," Lucina replied, with cold sweetness; "I would rather not urge you."
Jerome set his mouth hard as he ploughed. The newly turned sods clung to his feet and made them heavy, as the fond longings of the earth clung to his soul. It seemed to Jerome that he had never loved Lucina as he loved her then, that he had never wanted her so much. Also that he had never been so firmly resolved to give her up.
And Lucina, all blushing with innocent confusion, had believed him. In addition to all this she had in her trunks, strapped at the back of the stage-coach, two fine, new silk gowns, and one muslin, and a silk mantilla.
Lucina's white muslin fluttered around Jerome's knees, her curls floated across his breast. "Oh," murmured Lucina, confusedly, "this wind has come all of a sudden," and she stood apart from him. "You will take cold; we had better go in," said Jerome.
Lawrence had not been seated long before he turned slightly and cast a smiling glance around at beautiful Lucina, who inclined her head softly in response. Jerome had thus far never felt on his own account jealousy of any human being, he had also never been made ignominious by self-pity; now, both experiences came to him.
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