Love at the Loom — page 189: what you’re looking at

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4 ere he could stay her movements, she had edirown her arms about his neck, “I love you with such a love as S csrely no other woman is capable of. Do not try to break from me. Give me your hand, and the love will _ grow in your heart until it equals mine. ea “You think you love Goldie because she is pretty in .a milk-and-rose, babyish way; but she is no fit mate for you, my Donald. It is I who can most worthily bear your name. And, oh, Donald, I love you with all | my heart and soul. For you I would give up all the world. Donald, dear, fight against an infatuation SetepT ‘= ‘ ; 7 which would lead you to break. your word. Remem- — ber that by solemn oath she is pledged not to be yours, — Think how I love you!” Impassioned as her words were, her voice and man- ner made them evén more surcharged with passion, so that they seemed to throb and vibrate with the emotion that shook: her -whole being. § «i000 :-07 SAS Donald listened, and knew that she had given him all her heart; that she had merged her life into his and could never. again love another. ‘He knew ‘this without being conscious of the fact, for his heart was cold toward her, and beat only for Goldie. He was like one who does an act of madness, while knowing ‘of what-he 4 4S? guilty. | He-knew- he was ‘bound yi 46. her, ‘but: his heart: cried. for: Goldie. alo hae hod Eomire yar S com :