A Tar-Heel BaronSmith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
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A Tar-Heel Baron
Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
Mountain life -- Fiction; North Carolina -- Fiction
She lifted her face trustfully to his, and Gray Eagle watched them
gravely over the gate.
"I wees' I could make you know what you are to me, my pr-rincess, what
it means that you give yourself to me. It is not merely that I love
you, my dar-rling, with all the strength that has been gathering in me
while the years were adding themselves to my age. And it is not only
that I think you are per-rfect, so lovely in the char-racter, and so
clever, and so beautiful, my dear white r-rose. It means, besides those
things, that you have saved me from the sin of letting my poor powers
grow weaker; that you have changed me from a plaything of chance into a
man of will and action. I am bor-rn again, my heart's joy, into a world
of force and possibility, and you are the queen of the world, most
pr-recious."
She laid her bright head against his breast.
"Will you not say something to me, heart's dear-rest?"
"I am too happy, dear, to speak."
"And I am too happy to keep still!"
They released Gray Eagle from his bondage, and walked along the
carriage-road towards the house.
"After all, Friedrich, it was Bob who gave us to each other."
"Twice over, dear. He sent me to von Sternburg, and he saved my life
for--us."
"Poor Hilda!"
"Poor Bob!"
THE END
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