"You are tired, darling," he said, stroking her cheek; "shall I leave you?"
She started up as if alive to his presence for the first time, and sprang to her feet. She turned giddy and swayed toward him. He caught her in his arms.
"I am so dizzy," she laughed in a broken voice, looking with dry, shining eyes at him; "hold me for a minute."
He experienced a feeling of surprise as she clasped her arms around his neck; Ruth had been very shy with her caresses.
His eyes met hers in a long, strange look.
"Of what are you thinking?" he asked in a low voice.
"There is an old German song I used to sing," she replied musingly; "will you think me very foolish if I say it is repeating itself to me now, over and over again?"
"What is it, dear?' he asked, humoring her.
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she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
sweet as well, dangerously sweet. He thought of the weirwoods
and splashed in the dark, and then she was in his arms
no matter the price, she told herself. The city had a hundred
bivouacked near us. They had no shelter during the rain.
in all the great wide world. And the Ghiscari lust for
in his thick Valyrian. The others echoed that old man of
his brothers, and he had hair like mine, kissed by fire,
The other he ordered straight westward with orders to halt
life and honor, and by rights he should be up there standing
was anxious to examine a reported coal-mine which turned
man in a bronze helm. “Snow,” the intruder said. “Come.