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"How shall you compare?" cries she, "Thus and thus, dear Martin--so infinitely above and beyond all other men that unless you wed me needshed, "'Tis day already!" And noas her voice was doleful whiles her eyes gazed regretful round about the white sands of Deliverance and the tree-clad highlands beyond "O indeed I do love this dear island of ours, Martin!"

Sudden upon the stilly air was the beat of oars, and we beheld a boat rowed by a couple ofand the three gentleo with her to o, Damaris, I'll not speak them before I must And should you have cause to mention me I pray you will not telloes her way Froaily ashore to bow before her with s of hats, kissing of her hands and the like gallantries until I must needs scowl otherwhere; yet even so, was conscious of their hter where they paced to and fro and the new risen sunthe back to me

"Martin," says she, "it seeo to them Will you not come with s as you would bring away"

"Why then,these--nay wait, 'tis there I would bid farewell to this our dear island Wait oes on her errand of land and my future life there I was fain to picture myself married and happy in my lady's love, my life thenceforth a succession of peaceful days amid the ordered quiet of that Kentish countryside I knew and loved so well With the eye of erows, past chattering brooks and pleasant meadows, past sleepy hamlet bowered 'ates, their pillars crowned by couchant leopards wrought in the stone, and beyond these a broad avenue, its green shadow splashed with sunlight, leading away to the house of Conisby Shene with its wide terrace where stoodand expectant; yet nowhere could I vision , dark road with the beckoning light and the waiting arms of love," and in my heart the old doubt waked and a fear that such peace, such tender s and welcomes sweet, were not for such as I, nor ever could be