But because I love you in spite of your doubts as you love me
because you are so nobly generous, I am yours for ever and ever. So
here's the answer--here's the meaning of 'because' and now--won't you
kiss me, Peregrine?"
Thus stood we awhile amid the whispering leaves, and by the touch of
her mouth doubt and heaviness were lifted from me. Then hand in hand
she brought me where we might behold the barn, no longer a place of
evil, gloomy and sinister, but transformed by the kindly sun into a
place of beauty, dignified by age.
"Good-bye, old barn!" she whispered. "Look, Peregrine, it is so very,
very old, and cannot last much longer--and I love it because it was
there my man fought for me; it was there he showed me how truly
generous, how wonderful is his love for me--O Peregrine, my gorgio
gentleman, what a man you are! Good-bye, old barn!" she whispered.
"Good-bye!"
And when I had led forth my post horse and tethered him behind the
four-wheeled cart, we clambered in all three, Diana sitting close
beside me so that the kindly wind ever and anon would blow a tress of
her fragrant hair across my lips to be kissed.
And so the dead went back to his grave and my demons fled awhile.
"Perry," said the Tinker as, turning from the highway, Diogenes ambled
down a narrow lane, "you've forgot to ask about this here watch o'
mine."
"Well, how is it, Jerry?"
"Never was such a watch! Look at it! Reg'lar as the sun! Which riles
Jessamy.
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