[The Battle Of The Strong Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Battle Of The Strong Complete CHAPTER XIV 8/13
"Don't be frightened about anything. Now promise me that--will you promise me ?" She looked at him a moment steadily, her eyes lingering on his face with great tenderness, and then she said: "Yes, Philip, I will not trouble or question any longer.
I will only believe that everything is all right.
Say good-bye to me, Philip.
I am happy now, but if--if you stay any longer--ah, please, please go, Philip!" A moment afterwards Philip and Shoreham were entering the high road, waving their handkerchiefs to her as they went. She had gone back to the Druid's cromlech where Philip's friend had sat, and with smiling lips and swimming eyes she watched the young men until they were lost to view. Her eyes wandered over the sea.
How immense it was, how mysterious, how it begot in one feelings both of love and of awe! At this moment she was not in sympathy with its wonderful calm.
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