[The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel CHAPTER XX 34/52
The young man dropped the sculls.
The strange solemn notes gave a religions tone to his love, and wafted him into the knightly ages and the reverential heart of chivalry. Hanging between two heavens on the lake: floating to her voice: the moon stepping over and through white shoal's of soft high clouds above and below: floating to her void--no other breath abroad! His soul went out of his body as he listened. They must part.
He rows her gently shoreward. "I never was so happy as to-night," she murmurs. "Look, my Lucy.
The lights of the old place are on the lake.
Look where you are to live." "Which is your room, Richard ?" He points it out to her. "O Richard! that I were one of the women who wait on you! I should ask nothing more.
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