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Updated: June 16, 2025
And it will come, and with it the fairy prince, with whom you shall wander hand in hand through all its fairy rose-gardens; but I, dear Nicolete, I am not he." Nicolete did not speak.
"Certainly, we couldn't find a prettier place; but it's a long way," I replied, looking up at the sky, all roses and pearls, "a long way from the Morning Star to the Moon." "All the longer to be free," cried Nicolete, recklessly. "So be it," I assented. "Allons to the Moon!"
We were not waylaid by robbers, we fed and slept unchallenged at inns, we escaped collision with the police, and we encountered no bodily dangers of any kind; yet should I not call the journey uneventful, nor indeed, I think, would Nicolete. To me it was one prolonged divine event, and, with such daily intercourse with Nicolete, I never dreamed of craving for any other excitement.
Coming towards nightfall to a small inn in a lonely unpopulated countryside, we found that the only accommodation the inn afforded was one double-bedded room, and there was no other inn for at least ten miles. I think I was more troubled than Nicolete.
I said him neither yea nor nay; and while we stood in armed and embarrassed silence, Nicolete appeared with white face at the door, clothed in her emergency petticoat. Alas! it was for no such emergency as this that it had been destined that merry night when she had packed it in her knapsack.
My sleeplessness while Nicolete slept had not been all ecstasy, for I had come to a bitter resolution; and next morning, when we were once more on our way, I took a favourable opportunity of conveying it to Nicolete. "Nicolete," I said, as we rested awhile by the roadside, "I have something serious to say to you." "Yes, dear," she said, looking rather frightened.
"You remember Monsieur Renay, whom Mademoiselle Barbara named 'Monsieur Bebé? Well," Nicolete laughed bewitchingly, "he is my husband." "And is he " Nona asked and hesitated. Nicolete shook her head. "He can tell the light from the darkness, and now and then can see me moving in the shadow. Some day, the doctors say, his sight may be fully restored. He has seen the best specialists.
Her knapsack was already packed, and its contents included a serge skirt "in case of emergencies." Already, she naughtily reminded me, we possessed a petticoat between us. The brief remainder of the evening passed in excited chatter and cigarettes, and in my instructing Nicolete in certain tricks of masculine deportment.
As I read, I saw her lovely young face, radiant with love and sorrow as I had last seen it, and pressing the precious little letter to my lips, I said fervently, "Yes, Nicolete, I will be true." No doubt the youthful reader will have but a poor opinion of me after the last two chapters.
The law of the world in these matters is very right. For the rich and the poor to marry is to risk, terribly risk, the very thing they would marry for their love. Love is better an unmarried than a married regret." Nicolete was silent again. "Think of your little woodland chalet, and your great old trees in the park, you couldn't live without them.
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