He took her face in his palms, bending close his handsome head, and a mist dimmed the sparkle in his magnetic eyes.
"My darling, the coldest night I ever spent, when lost on the 'Great Ice,' where a snow-storm obliterated sledge tracks and death seemed inevitable, the remembered touch of your dear arms clinging around my neck, the pressure of your face on my breast, thrilled my heart, fired my blood, and warmed my freezing body. I missed the Pole; I nearly lost my life; but, ah, thank God, better than either, more precious than all, I have found at last, and I own the pure heart of my wife."
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BY AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON.
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By Major J. B. Pond.
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