[The Battle Of The Strong Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Battle Of The Strong Complete CHAPTER XIV 6/13
If you, Philip--if you say it is all right, I will believe that it is right, for you would never want your wife to have one single wrong thing like a dark spot on her life with you--would you? If it is all right to you, it must be all right for me, don't you see ?" He did see that, and it made him grave for an instant, it made him not quite so sure. "If your mother were alive," he answered, "of course she should have known; but it isn't necessary for your grandfather to know.
He talks; he couldn't keep it to himself even for a month.
But we have been regularly married, we have a witness--Shoreham over there," he pointed towards the Druid's cromlech where the young man was perched--"and it only concerns us now--only you and me." "Yet if anything happened to you during the next two months, Philip, and you did not come back!" "My dearest, dearest Guida," he answered, taking her hands in his, and laughing boyishly, "in that case you will announce the marriage. Shoreham and the clergyman are witnesses; besides, there's the certificate which Mr.Dow will give you to-morrow; and, above all, there's the formal record on the parish register.
There, sweetest interrogation mark in the world, there is the law and the gospel! Come, come, let us be gay, let this be the happiest hour we've yet had in all our lives." "How can I be altogether gay, Philip, when we part now, and I shall not see you for two whole long months ?" "Mayn't I come to you for just a minute to-morrow morning, before I go ?" "No, no, no, you must not, indeed you must not.
Remember your promise, remember that you are not to see me again until you come back from Portsmouth.
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