I have manliness enough for that even yet." "No," she said proudly, "but because you are the only man I ever did or can love." For a minute I forgot my woes, my pains.

No ghastly deed taunted me with its memory, no dark cloud hung in the skies.

I felt my Gertrude's lips against mine; I felt that her life was given to me.

I was no longer alone and desolate; a pure, beautiful woman had trusted me so fully, so truly, that hope dawned in my sky, and earth was heaven.
"Now, Justin," she said, after a few minutes of happy silence, "you must away.

Every hour may be precious.