"A woman has to do many things to save herself--"
"Oh, I swear that you are the most marvellous, the most beautiful woman
in the world ... I love you ... I adore you ... I'd die for you ...
right here ... now!"
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As we lay there in the dark the storm pulled and tugged and battered as
if with great, sinister hands, striving to get in at us.
Hildreth trembled in my arms, shaking afresh at each shock of the wind
and the rain.
"Don't be afraid, my little woman!"
"I wonder if he'd dare come down to-night?"
"If he did, and caught us, I'd kill him."
"He knows that, if he knows anything, I'm sure ... that's why I think
we're all right!"
And she came up closer into my arms with a sigh of content.
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