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For Valmai, who had watched for an hour to catch a last glimpse of him, had been frightened when she saw the "Vicare du" looking towards the stile, and evidently drawing Cardo's attention to it; she had shrunk back until they had passed, and then standing on the hedge, had waved a last good-bye, and immediately afterwards slipped down in an abandonment of grief.
"Well, go on, Nance," said Valmai, as the old woman stopped to rake the peat embers together. "Well! then, we all thought it was a very good thing, and no doubt the Almighty had His plans about it, for how could your poor mother take two babies with her to that far-off land where your father went a missionary?
"But you can say, 'Cardo, I love you. Say that again." "Yes, I can say that, whatever." "Say it, then, Valmai." "Oh, well, indeed! You know quite well that I love you. Cardo, I love you." And to the sound of the plashing waves the old, old story was told again.
Valmai lay long awake that night, thinking of her happiness and blushing, even in the darkness, as she remembered Cardo's burning words of love; and he went home whistling and even singing in sheer exuberance of joy.
"Tell me, Valmai, have I offended you?" "Offended me? Oh, no; why should you? But indeed it was very foolish of you, whatever. If you had come in and listened to the reading it would be better, perhaps," she said laughingly. "If I had come in, what would your uncle have said? He would have been very angry." "Well, indeed, yes; I was forgetting that.
He was suddenly struck by a stunning blow, which for a moment seemed to take away his senses but only for a moment for what was this calm? what was this quiet sense of rest? was he sinking out of life into some dim, unconscious state of being? had he seen the last of the clouds? the moon the stormy waters? Had Valmai already slipped away from him?
"Ah, indeed, that's a pity!" and she took the first opportunity of joining her friend, and telling her of her discovery. Cardo continued to look out to sea. No, bad enough to leave Valmai, but "little ones"? Would that time ever come? and as he pondered, a fresh idea seemed to strike him.
Valmai flitted about, putting the finishing touches to her uncle's gorgeous toilet. "Do Ay look all raight, may dear?" "Oh, splendid, uncle, only I would like you better in your plain white night shirt and my little gray shawl pinned over you." "Oh, go 'long! with your shawls and your pins!
Think, Valmai, only a year, and I shall come and claim you for my own! Confess, dearest, that it is a little solace that we are united before we are parted, that, whatever happens, you are my wife and I am your husband." "Yes, indeed; indeed, it is my only solace, and I am going to be brave and hopeful.
Well then, my father was a missionary there, and he took me and my mother with him when I was only a baby. Since then I have always been living there, till this year I came to Wales." "Patagonia!" said Cardo. "So far away? No wonder you dropped upon me so suddenly! But how, then, did you grow up Welsh?" Valmai laughed merrily. "Grow up Welsh? Well, indeed, I don't know what have I grown up!
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