The Laurel Bush: An Old-Fashioned Love StoryCraik, Dinah Maria Mulock
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The Laurel Bush: An Old-Fashioned Love Story
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
Fiction; Love stories
They are sure, humanly speaking, to "live very happy to the end of their
days." And I almost fancy sometimes, if I were to go to St. Andrews, as
I hope to do many a time, for I am as fond of the Aged City as they are,
that I should see those two, made one at last after all those cruel
divided years, wandering together along the sunshiny sands, or standing
to watch the gay golfing parties; nay, I am not sure that Robert Roy
would not be visible sometimes in his red coat, club in hand, crossing
the Links, a victim to the universal insanity of St. Andrews, yet
enjoying himself, as golfers always seem to do, with the enjoyment of a
very boy.
She is not a girl, far from it; but there will always be a girlish
sweetness in her faded face till its last smile. And to see her sitting
beside her husband on the green slopes of the pretty garden--knitting,
perhaps while he reads his eternal newspapers--is a perfect picture.
They do not talk very much; indeed, they were neither of them ever great
talkers. But each knows the other is close at hand, ready for any
needful word, and always ready with that silent sympathy which is so
mysterious a thing, the rarest thing to find in all human lives. These
have found it, and are satisfied. And day by day truer grows the truth
of that sentence which Mrs. Roy once discovered in her husband's
pocket-book, cut out of a newspaper--she read and replaced it without a
word, but with something between a smile and tear--_"Young love is
passionate, old love is faithful; but the very tenderest thing in all
this world is a love revived."_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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