Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIII THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW "ANX) now," said the lady, facing Alexander.. A. Alexander, for one so handsome, looked sheepish. "I'm sorry," he said "About what?" "He spoke when he did P "And why should you be sorry?" she demanded. "Because I thought I was beginning to 'get dnT "Get on? What do you mean?" "With you!" Humbly. "You thought that? You dared think that?" This porter-- "I dared," he said in a low tone. She didn't quite recognize that tone. It was different--something new I "Yes, I'm sorry," he repeated, "and yet, I'm glad." "About what?" "That you didn't actually kick me out! Though you would have been justified!" Whence came these finely modulated tones? "You still seem very presuming!" "I wouldn't be," said Alexander. "It is my heart's desire to lay my life's service at your feet." "Say that again!" cried the lady, standing in a daze. "And every service I shall count as a sweetest boon!" What music was this? Alexander's voice had lost all harshness and stridency. His tones were deep and mellifluous. So the surf might murmur on the shore. "I hear," said the lady, as one trying to catch a new song, "but I do not seem to understand." "Do you not see, it is my heart that I am laying at your feet?" "Your heart?" The lady felt her own move. "What heart? How do I know you have a heart? I seem to have stepped from somewhere, into somewhere else." "Step into my life," said Alexander, in booming tones, "forever! And I will build there a shrine for you!" "Very pretty! Only more inexplicable!" "No more so than sunlight, birds' songs, the joy of life, the ecstasy of another's presence!" "Ecstasy?" "For me!" "A poet?" Staring at him. "Not I! Love speaks." "Love!--a monster!" "Love, a cooing dove!" murmured the big Alexander insidiously. "Love, as g...
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