The Argosy — page 268: what you’re looking at

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Straight from the Plain. — 247 * And accept me with her? Oh, my dear one, what do you suppose has brought me home before my travels were over, but you ? I could not stay away from you longer—my darling, well-loved Anna !” The probability is that she did accept him, though she could not bring herself to say it; for when he presumed to take a kiss or two from her pretty trembling lips, the attempt she made to draw the lips away was very feeble indeed. They walked to the Rectory under the soft hues of twilight, when the rose tints were fading from the western sky and the twinkling stars began to shine out. And when the old Rector reached home at the sober hour of ten, mellowed by Dr. Reeves’ good mellow port, he hardly knew which most petrified him—the sight of Roger Brooke, or the news that Anna, with his leave, would soon quit the Rectory for the Court. | ‘IT hardly dare give the leave,” said the old man. Why not, sir?” “People would never forgive me. You must know well, Roger, that not a county family but expects you to go to it for a wife.” ‘Likely enough,” laughed Roger. ‘‘ But I choose to come to you for one, sir.” Well, well. My dear little Anna! I know not how I shall part with her.” “She will be your loving daughter still, sir, though she is my wife.” comicooolks (C(O) mm