This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...and caressing. In an instant he had sprung across and reached her and clasped her in his arms. "Oh, my wife, my darling! " he was exclaiming. And she looked up in amazement, for his tears were streaming over her cheek. Mrs. Donner had never expected to be so happy, in all her life before, she never expected ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...and caressing. In an instant he had sprung across and reached her and clasped her in his arms. "Oh, my wife, my darling! " he was exclaiming. And she looked up in amazement, for his tears were streaming over her cheek. Mrs. Donner had never expected to be so happy, in all her life before, she never expected then to be so happy again as she was that night when, friends and neighbors gone after their glad entertainment, her husband, kneeling on the rug before her, as she sat by the fire, drew her face down and kissed her on the mouth--the long, deep, silent kiss of perfect love. "I thought I had lost you, Nancy," he half sobbed in pity of himself. "I never knew life could be such a desert. Oh, you must teach me to be good as you are, half as good as you are, and to deserve the mercy I have had, my wife, my wife!" But in his arms out there on the edge of the morass, half a flashing thought with her had been followed by remembrance that he was never to dream she knew he had married her as he did. And here in this ecstatic moment, while her transfigured face glowed in the firelight almost like a thing of beauty, unaware of change and development in himself the consciousness possessed him that this precious being was never to be so hurt as to be allowed to dream that her marriage had; been desecration, that he loved her more now than he had always loved her, other than in the knowledge that love grows and increases as the flower grows from the bud, as the flame swells from the well-fanned fire, as the world grows from shapeless nebula to star. But it was only to John Donner's eyes that beauty blossomed in this pale face. To the rest of the small village world there was no change in Mrs. Donner; they wanted none, indeed. Pure goodness and the light of a...
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