Déroulède’s arm was round his beloved, her golden hair, fanned by the breeze, brushed lightly against his cheek.
“Madonna!” he murmured.
She turned her head to him. It was the first time that they were quite alone, the first time that all thought of danger had become a mere dream.
What had the future in store for them, in that beautiful, strange land to which the graceful yacht was swiftly bearing them?
England, the land of freedom, would shelter their happiness and their joy; and they looked out towards the North, where lay, still hidden in the arms of the distant horizon, the white cliffs of Albion, whilst the mist even now was wrapping in its obliterating embrace the shores of the land where they had both suffered, where they had both learned to love.
He took her in his arms.
“My wife!” he whispered.
The rosy light touched her golden hair; he raised her face to his, and soul met soul in one long, passionate kiss.
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I Will Repay
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