“Yes, indeed, Rustem !” she exclaimed, looking tearfully but gratefully into his eyes.  “All that is in me of love and tenderness is for you—­for you only.”

At this he joyfully exclaimed: 

“All, that is indeed good hearing!  That will do for me; that is what I call a good morning’s work!  I sat down under this tree a vagabond and a wanderer, and I get up a future land-holder, with the sweetest little wife in the world to keep house for me.”

They sat a long time under the shady foliage; he craved no more than to gaze at her and, when he put the old questions asked by all lovers, to be answered with lips and eyes, or merely a speechless nod.  Her hands no longer plied the needle, and the pair would have smiled in pity on any one who should have complained of the intolerable heat of this scorching, parching forenoon.  A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun’s rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate’s neck.

ETEXT EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS: 

Better place if there were neither masters nor servants
See with agonizing clearness what he had lost in her

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