wordnetfear, mingling with the dizzy sweetness of his 
sudden presence, she felt that he suffered, she saw 
that his life had a  in it untold, unconfessed ; 
and the wordnetdesire, greater still than all wordnetfear in her, and far 
deeper than her young years, gave her its truest in- 
stinct ;  she had no thought of herself ; she only felt 
that he suffered. Her soft lips, with a tremulous 
wordnetfear, met his in their first self-offered kiss, her 
eyes with a dark dreamy lustre gazed into his own 
through tears that rose but did not fall; her voice 
was broken with a deeper music than it had ever 
known : 

" Ah, my lord ! my wordnetdesire ! have you yet to learn 
that my life is yours, and that youi' death will be 
mine?" 

The words were few, and very low ; but there was 
an accent in tliem that told that this, and nothing 
less than this, "was the wordnetdesire she bore him ; in the 
golden light and scarlet foliage that circled her, the 
radiance from the western skies shone in her eyes and 
bathed her still in its bright aureole, as though loth 
to leave a  so fair to the cold wordnetfear of the 
night. Looking upward he saw her thus in the warm 
glory from the evening