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The Man Between: An International Romance
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“It may be a truth”
“Then it is among those truths that should be held back, and it is likely only a trick of my imagination, a supposition, a fancy.”
“A miracle! And of two miracles I prefer the least, and that is that Basil is dead. Your young preacher is a dream; and, oh, Tyrrel, I am so tired! It has been such a long, long, happy day! I want to sleep. My eyes are shutting as I talk to you. Such a long, long, happy day!”
“And so many long, happy days to come, dearest.”
“So many,” she answered, as she took Tyrrel’s hand, and lifted her fur and fan and gloves. “What were those lines we read together the night before we were married? I forget, I am so tired. I know that life should have many a hope and aim, duties enough, and little cares, and now be quiet, and now astir, till God’s hand beckoned us unawares–”
The rest was inaudible. But between that long, happy day and the present time there has been an arc of life large enough to place the union of Tyrrel and Ethel Rawdon among those blessed bridals that are
“The best of life’s romances.”
notes
1
One of the Hebrew prophets.
2
Wisdom of Solomon, IV., 13, 14.
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