[Wife in Name Only by Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay)]@TWC D-Link bookWife in Name Only CHAPTER XIII 5/19
For a time they sat in perfect silence.
Her head was thrown back against a pillar round which red roses clustered and clung, and the light of the stars fell full upon her face; the dark eyes were full of radiance. "How beautiful it is, Norman," she said, suddenly.
"What music has ever equaled the whispers of the night-wind? It seems a sad pity after all that we are obliged to lead such conventional lives, and spend the greater part of them in warm, close rooms." "You have a great love for out-of-door freedom," he remarked, laughingly. "Yes, I love the fresh air.
I think if any one asked me what I loved best on earth, I should say wind.
I love it in all its moods--rough, caressing, tender, impetuous, calm, stormy.
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