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Updated: May 29, 2025
Instead of going to school she went straight home, flung herself full-length on the bed, buried her face in the pillow, and shook for a long time with terrible tearless sobs. Her life was ruined within her. Joe went home in a distraught condition. He was angry, amazed, and passion-shaken.
"Peter," she said, slowly, "we've been good friends, you and I. I want to go on being good friends with you ... but that's all I can say." "And him," demanded the young man, with white cheeks and passion-shaken voice, "what of him?" "He asked me an hour ago," she answered, frankly. "We're going to be married."
But the crowd itself was colorless and somber of mood, and as the car stopped the speaker pointed to it with a passion-shaken hand, so that its principal occupant knew that he was recognized and being made the target of a verbal onslaught. Those men standing nearest turned and gazed at him with an idle curiosity. They were seeing a multi-millionaire at close range.
Like stone she stood as he came back, but her arms went up to receive him. Her lips melted into his, and the fire of her face flashed through every vein. "And afterward?" he said hoarsely. There was triumph in her answering laughter, passion-shaken though it was. "Then you'll take me with you." "But afterward?" he repeated. Lingeringly she released herself. "Let that take care of itself.
How easy it would be to escape into this lovely night to walk through this ambrosial air to the house-worshipful in which she doubtless lay, like a closed lily-flower, clasped in sleep. A mocking-bird the Southland's nightingale in, some tree or bush not far away, burst into passion-shaken melody that seemed to voice, as no words could, his own emotion.
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