Love at the Loom — page 53: what you’re looking at

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Feould be near to see, anda in the midst of her Stans “thes a way that led her from him. _ Then sounded a step behind her, and it seemed to her ‘ Fehat her heart swelled and crowded up into her throat | : _ until she was nigh suffocation. But it was the fullness of a joy she had never felt before. _ Her love was near, and the rest of the world faded ¢ “out of sight and mind. : He was near, and his voice would sound on her en- _ tranced ear in a moment. “Goldie!’’ _ like a dumb, adoring creature. a He took her rounded arm in his tand’ap | tae _ might walk by her side in greater harmony with her _ step. His touch thrilled her so that she seemed to . float rather than walk. “Goldie,” he ‘said, his voice low and murmurous with a eiraint passion ee could not control, “d was ; afraid I had missed you.” ‘, “I feared it, too,” she whispered brblecnly. “You hoped I would come, then?” he asked huskily. He was fighting himself with all his strength, but _ the words seemed to come without his volition. a He had gone to the factory, and had strugpiidt wlde Her breath came and went between her parted red “lips, and all she could do was to look up into his eyes” a - fear, she began to ask herself if she might not have : im