The Romance of a Water-Lily. 149

 

 

together beside the lake in
the summer evenings, when
we have stood together
beneath the stars on frosty
winter nights. And thine
eyes have been as the stars
and thy soul as clear as the
heavens themselves: thou
couldst not lie!”

“Vet I lied,” muttered
she, with her foolish pea-
sant’s obstinacy, dogged in
her pride. “I lied.”
= ry “T will notbelieveit,” said |
Et po he; “and thou lovest me

Gniiin Sf RY A still!”
He Pune ean ad “How dare you!” she
cried. :
“ Ay, thou lovest me still,” repeated he, undaunted.
“And by thy love thou knowest that I love thee, that
I could not deceive thee, that I would die for thee.”