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Updated: May 6, 2025
"That Tex, she's smart hombre." He laid himself down to sleep again. Speaking of Tex; that same night he lay awake for a long while, staring at the moon-lighted window and wishing that his eyesight could follow his thoughts and show him what he wanted to see.
He did not give her time to ask any questions, but went on: "I have been asking her about life in Lethbury houses, gardens, everything that relates to a home in that delightful village. And what she has told me opens a paradise before me. I did not dream that down in that moon-lighted valley I should be almost rich; that I could offer you "
In her soft thin dress, standing by the open window, she was the gladdest creature one could wish to see. And so Truedale found her. He knew that only one reason had caused Lynda to meet him as she was now doing. It was surrender! Across the moon-lighted room he went to her with opened arms, and when she came to meet him and lifted her face he kissed her reverently.
There was no ecstatic thrilling of her heart in the divine rapture of mutual and open recognition of love, for no such love existed on her part. It was only a languid feeling of contentment moon-lighted with sentiment, not sun-lighted with joy that she had found some one who would not leave her to labor and struggle alone. "Gus," she said pathetically, "we are very poor; we have nothing.
The more she had to conceal from Billy, the more she yearned to be near him. The Comrade, responding to the steady hand upon the tiller, shot into the cove. The girl secured the boat and ran lightly over the dunes to the seaward side; then she lay down among the sand grasses and waited. She seemed alone in God's world. The moon-lighted ocean spread full and throbbing before her.
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