27/30 My damask cheek is not going to be preyed upon, nor shall I take to an excess of tobacco and poetry. I have made a mistake, but I mean to sing over it,--not weep over it,--and to become a stronger and better man, if possible, for having been so weak a one." "And Phebe ?" said Soeur Angelique. Great tears stood in her eyes. "Soeur Angelique, you must bury those hopes in the grave. Loving Gerald Vernor, never, now, or in the future, shall I have one word of love for any other woman. |