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The Garden Of Eden |
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"Why didn't you do this at first, David? I have been waiting so long." "What!" I cried. "You said that you hated me!" "Did you expect me to run into your arms, and say that I loved you before I knew that you loved me?" she asked. "But I have told you right along that I love you," I said. "Love speaks in acts," she replied. "You could have made your mouth say what you wished it to say, but just now when you came and took me in your arms your heart spoke to mine in the language that a woman's heart understands. What a silly man you are, David?" "Then you haven't hated me at all, Dian?" I asked. "I have loved you always," she whispered, "from the first moment that I saw you, although I did not know it until that time you struck down Hooja the Sly One, and then spurned me." "But I didn't spurn you, dear," I cried. "I didn't know your ways--I doubt if I do now. It seems incredible that you could have reviled me so, and yet have cared for me all the time." "You might have known," she said, "when I did not run away from you that it was not hate which chained me to you. While you were battling with Jubal, I could have run to the edge of the forest, and when I learned the outcome of the combat it would have been a simple thing to have eluded you and returned to my own people." "But Jubal's brothers--and cousins--" I reminded her, "how about them?" She smiled, and hid her face on my shoulder. "I had to tell you SOMETHING, David," she whispered. "I must needs have SOME excuse for remaining near you." "You little sinner!" I exclaimed. "And you have caused me all this anguish for nothing!" |
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