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" And now, " he said, " If none should come, and any wind arise To weld these woody monsters 'gainst the isle, I shall be cracked like any broken twig ; And as it is, I know not if I die, For I am hurt — ay, sorely, sorely hurt!" Then looked on Katie's lily face, and said, "Dead, dead or living? Why, an even chance. lovely bubble on a troubled sea, 1 would not thou shouldst lose thyself again In the black ocean whence thy life emerged, But skyward steal on gales as soft as love, And hang in som...e bright rainbow overhead, If only such bright rainbow spanned the earth. " Then shouted loudly, till the silent air Boused like a frightened bird, and on its wings Caught up his cry and bore it to the farm. There Malcolm, leaping from his noontide sleep, Upstarted as at midnight, crying out, " She shall not wed him ! Best you, wife, in peace ! They found him, Alfred, haggard-eyed and faint, But holding Katie ever toward the sun, Unhurt, and waking in the fervent heat. And now it came that Alfred, being sick Of his sharp hurts and tended by them both 213 ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD With what was like to love — being born of thanks- Had choice of hours most politic to woo, And used his deed, as one might use the sun To ripe unmellowed fruit ; and from the core Of Katie's gratitude hoped yet to nurse A flower all to his liking — Katie's love.
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