[Clementina by A.E.W. Mason]@TWC D-Link bookClementina CHAPTER XIII 14/31
The very dogs running the streets for food keep kennel on such a night.
She must not go." Wogan did not give way, though he felt a qualm of despair, knowing all the stubbornness of which the weak are capable, knowing how impervious to facts or arguments. "Your Highness," he said quickly, "we are not birds of passage to rule our flight by seasons.
We must take the moment when it comes, and it comes now.
To-night your daughter can escape; for here's a night made for an escape." "And for my part," cried Clementina, "I would the snow fell faster." She crossed to the open window and held out her hands to catch the flakes. "Would they did not melt! I believe Heaven sends the snow to shelter me. It's the white canopy spread above my head, that I may go in state to meet my King." She stood eager and exultant, her eyes shining, her cheek on fire, her voice thrilling with pride.
She seemed not to feel the cold.
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