"Love is strong as death," said
Mary Sedhurst's tomb. She knew better what that meant than when her
childish eyes first fell upon it. A sense of Divine Love was wrapping
her round with a feeling of support and trust, while the human love
drew her onwards to confront all deadly possibilities in the hope of
rejoining her husband, or at least of averting misfortune from her
father.
CHAPTER XXV. VANISHED.
Where there is no place
For the glow-worm to lie,
Where there is no space
For receipt of a fly,
Where the midge dares not venture
Lest herself fast she lay,
If Love come, he will enter
And find out the way.--OLD SONG.
Major Delavie and his eldest daughter were sitting down to supper
in the twilight, when a trampling of horses was heard in the lane
a carriage was seen at the gate, and up the pathway came a slender
youthful figure, in a scarlet coat, with an arm in a sling.
"It is!--yes, it is!" exclaimed Betty: "Sir Amyas himself!"
In spite of his lameness, the Major had opened the door before Palmer
could reach it; but his greeting and inquiry were cut short by the
young man's breathless question: "Is she here?"
"Who?"
"My wife--my love. Your daughter, sweet Aurelia! Ah! it was my one
hope.
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