“Will ye be my wife? Oh, will you, Fanny?”
“Yes.”
It was but a whispered word, but it thrilled Sandie’s heart with joy.
“My ain dear dove!” he cried, folding her in his arms.
They were sitting on a mossy bank close by the forest’s edge.
Their lips met in one long, sweet kiss.
Yes, peasant love I grant you, but I think it was leal and true.
“They might be poor—Sandie and she;
Light is the burden love lays on;
Content and love bring peace and joy.
What more have queens upon a throne?”
Homeward through the moonlight, hand-in-hand, went the rustic lovers, and parted at the gate as lovers do.
Sandie was kind of dazed with happiness. He lay awake nearly all the livelong night, till the cocks began to crow, wondering how on earth he was to raise the other fifty pounds and more that should complete his happiness. Then he dozed off into dreamland.