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It came slowly toward him. The eyes closed steadily with his, there was no excitement, only cold alertness. "Indeed? What was I singing?" "For one thing, the chant of the negro woodcutters of Louisiana." "What part of Louisiana?" "The county of Tellavie chiefly." Telford drew a long breath, as though some suspense was over, and then said, "How did you know it was I?" "I could scarcely tell you.
There was, for the moment, no thought of right or wrong, misery or disaster, past or future, only this is she! In the wild whistle of arctic winds he had sworn that he would cease to remember, but her voice ran laughing through them as it did through the blossoms of the locust trees at Tellavie, and he could not forget.
"Quite so," he said, "and it is far from Tellavie." "It is not so far as it was yesterday," she added. At that they began to walk toward the garden leading to the cloisters. Hagar wondered whether Mrs. Detlor wished to be left alone with Telford. As if divining his thoughts, she looked up at him and answered his mute question, following it with another of incalculable gentleness.
When the mists rose from the blue lake on a summer plain, the rosy breath of the sun bearing them up and scattering them like thistledown, he said that he would think no more of her; but, stooping to drink, he saw her face in the water, as in the hill spring at Tellavie, and he could not forget.
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