12/22 I am very sorry you should have this bad fortune, Gilbert, that is all." "There is nothing which I do not hope to repair, dear. The losses are not more than I can stand. All that I take to heart is the separation from you, Marian." "I am not worth so much regret," she said, with her eyes fixed upon the ground, and her hands clasping and unclasping each other nervously. "You are all the world to me; the beginning and end of my universe." She looked a little brighter by-and-by, when her lover had done his best to cheer her with hopeful talk, which cost him no small effort in the depressed state of his mind. The day went by very slowly, although it was the last which those two were to spend together until Gilbert Fenton's return. |