"
She murmured--
"Yours, Ralph, yours only!"
He caught her in his passionate embrace, even as the words were murmured
from her lips. Her head settled upon his shoulder; her light brown hair,
loosened from the comb, fell over it in silky masses. Her eyes closed,
his arms still encircled her, and the whole world was forgotten in a
moment;--when the door opened, and a third party entered the room in the
person of Colonel Colleton.
Here was a catastrophe!
CHAPTER IV.
A RUPTURE--THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
Colonel Colleton stood confounded at the spectacle before him. Filled
with public affairs, or rather, with his own affairs in the public eye,
he had grown totally heedless of ordinary events, household interests,
and of the rapid growth and development of those passions in youth which
ripen quite as fervently and soon in the shade as in the sun. These
children--how should they have grown to such a stature! His daughter, at
this moment, seemed taller than he had ever seen her before! and
Ralph!--as the uncle's eyes were riveted upon the youth, he certainly
grew more than ever erect and imposing of look and stature.
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