The American Marquis by Nick Carter — page 109: what you’re looking at

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THE AMERICAN MARQUIS. | 105 us go to your lovely chateau, and I will promise to pass my life there with you without a murmur, except of love and happiness, and my willingness to live only for you and with © ou. j ‘© Ah, Honore, you do not know my heart if you doubt fit. Come, my husband, my Honore, take me at my } word.” } Clinton devoured Grace with hungry looks, as in her low, sweet voice, full of passionate earnestness, she told him of her love and devotion. He caught her in his arms, and holding her close to him, gazed into her eyes with an eager,.yearning expression, as if to coax from her very soul a corroboration of her words. ‘“You do not doubt me, darling, do you?” She lovingly pleaded for an answer. ‘“‘If I did doubt you, and you asked me like that to for- swear myself, I could not resist. I do not doubt you, Grace, for if I did, even in so little a thing, I shudder to think of what my heart would feel.” ‘<'Then promise me that we shall go to your chateau and stay there. Oh, I promise you that you shall be the first to long for other companionship. I will be such a loving little wife, and will so cling to your heart that you will wonder you ever could fancy for one moment that I would not be satisfied with you alone.” His face lighted up. CHAPTER XXXII. : A REMARKS DLE PICTURE. “You shall do no such penance, my sweet Grace. We will go to the chateau. If you can stay there for one year without wishing to leave it, I will promise you that after that you may have your own will.” ‘< You promise me that? ee ‘< | promise.’ ‘<Very well, then, sir doubter, you are Hicaly to spend your life in your ancestral chateau. And if you catch a murmur on my lips, or detect one in my heart during that year of probation, you may—-you may—let me see what you _ may Bor: Eomichbooks (E(0) m