“But you've always had the best things. You've never known what it is to be poor.”
“No, I've never had the best things, never till I knew you, dear. I've starved for them and did not know how to escape the prison I was in. Then you came... and you showed me. The world is at my feet now. Not the world you meant, of idleness and luxury and ennui... but that better one of the spirit where you and I shall walk together as comrades of all who work and laugh and weep.”
“If I could be sure!”
“Of me, Jeff?”
“That I can make you happy. After all it's a chance.”
“We all live on a chance. I'll take mine beside the man I love. There is one way under heaven by which men may be saved. I'm going to walk that way with you, dear.”
Jeff threw away the reins of a worldly wise prudence.
“For ever and ever, Alice,” he cried softly, shaken to his soul.
As their lips met the lark throbbed a betrothal song.
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