Love at the Loom — page 187: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXIV. { TRUE TO HER OATH. - Donald Irwin did not really know the nature of the ‘ en so bitterly disappointed as he ‘was when he lis- s to her firm words of refusal to give him back his freedom. . f _ He was almost dumfounded when she spoke so positively. It had not occurred to him as possible that — i ny woman would care to hold a man who confessed — his love for another. _ For a few moments he gazed at her as if he ex- 4 acted her to open her lips to recall the words she had Sf oken. But she did not speak at all. She had t ought the matter all out, and was not going to give uy the man she loved with a passion which had be- come little, if anything, short of insanity. _ “Mildred,” he*said hoarsely, “you could not have understood me. I tell you I love Goldie, and can ever, never love you or any other than her.” “Donald,” she answered, veiling her flaming eyes with their coal-black lashes, “I did not misunderstand you. You tell me that you do not love me, and ask me tc give you up to another. I answer you that I will at give you up.” ¢ bist to whom he was betrothed, or he would not have _=> > comicbooks.co