e, "I have been the basest of the base in the past--why should you
think me other than heartless and mercenary still. But oh, Richard,
don't you see--I love you now, so dearly and truly, my husband, that I
can never have any life apart from you more. Do not talk to me of
poverty--only tell me you will never leave me again." "Never again," he
answered, "till death us do part. But Marian, though I am no longer the
millionaire you married, I do not return to you quite a beggar. More or
less I have retrieved the past, and we can begin life anew almost as
luxuriously as we left it off." Her face clouded for a moment.

"Ah! I am sorry. I wanted to atone: how can I now? I have been your wife
in the sunshine. I thought to show you what I could be in the shadow,
and now all that is at an end. I can never show you how I have repented
for--that night."

But Richard Fletcher only smiles a smile of great content. And in the
silence that ensues, there comes over the snowy fields the joyful bells
of the blessed Christmas morning, and in their hearts both bless God for
the new life, that dawns with this holy day.

* * * * *

1885.

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