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"He is mine and I am his. And because he
is mine, my beloved is safe; and because I am his, he is content."
Thus she gave herself completely; gathering him into the shelter of
her love; and her generous heart expanded to the greatness of the
gift. Then the mother in her awoke and realised how much of the
maternal flows into the love of a true woman when she understands
how largely the child-nature predominates in the man in love, and
how the very strength of his need of her reduces to unaccustomed
weakness the strong nature to which she has become essential.
Jane pressed her hands upon her breast. "Garth," she whispered,
"Garth, I UNDERSTAND. My own poor boy, it was so hard to you to be
sent away just then. But you had had all--all you wanted, in those
few wonderful moments, and nothing can rob you of that fact. And you
have made me SO yours that, whatever the future brings for you and
me, no other face will ever be hidden here. It is yours, and I am
yours--to-night, and henceforward, forever.


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