ces, and the song of the rippling foun

ling!" cried the impetuous lover. "Would i

the terror deepe

"Ida, let me kiss you!" He clasped his arms around her and drew her to his b

weet lips over

ung that she

can talk over all these things a

d by his pas

utiful, dainty young girl could not hol

oke, and the heir

g girl back to the old folks. But it would surely end by their

ould be right, Mr. Ai

. "To you I shall be 'Royal' from now on to eternit

e seemed swallowed up

ckly as you can. I will meet you at the fountain nearest the entrance. Not on

, the very power to even think fo

lling her mind of what Hildegarde[19] and Lily would say when it was u

eels, and the calling of numbers. To the girl whom Royal Ainsley led on to so strange a fate it seemed like a dream. Som

me had been signed to the note; but he had argued to himself that the minister, who probably was sadly in need of making an extra dollar, would stay at h

el, and, as if in a dream, they

icker time, my d

ne. A brief half hour since she had been in the midst of a brilliant party, and now, scarcely knowing how it had come abo

me to her like a

ne? Where are we going? I did not mean to run a

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ck from some adjoining towe

idges behind us. They are unmasking now, and they

asped

I must tel

g to him, the lovely young f

rapturously embracing her, though in doing so

o freshen, and the booming of the waves, as they dashed he

e is a storm coming up. I think we could save n

t into a broad patch of land, a