[Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookMichel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] Complete CHAPTER XVIII 25/26
And that gives me warrant for the future.
She has relief in his banishment, and only recalls older and happier days when, if her cares were no greater, they were borne by the buoyancy of girlhood and youth.
Of days spent here she talked until mine own eyes went blind.
She said it was a place for lovers, and if she knew any two lovers who were true lovers, and had been long parted, she would send them here." "There be two true lovers, and they have been long parted," murmured Angele. "But she commanded these lovers not to meet till Trinity Day, and she brooks not disobedience even in herself.
How could she disobey her own commands? But"-- her eyes were on the greenwood and the path that led into the circle--"but she would shut her eyes to-day, and let the world move on without her, let lovers thrive, and birds be nesting without heed or hap.
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