it was a lie. Kiss me on the mouth."

His arm curved itself around her neck, and the red lips which had mocked
melted upon his own.

"Did you suffer?" he murmured.

She began to sob like a child, as she had sobbed at the feet of the
Virgin.

"I told you that you would suffer! It was the same thing with me. Saints
of Heaven! human beings cannot bear that long. I shall not die, and I
will make you forget the pain. Stay with me, and let me see your eyes
and touch your lips every hour, that I may know you are Pepita, and that
you have given yourself to me."

"I will stay through all the day and night," she answered. "They cannot
make me go away if I do not wish it. They always give me my way. I have
always had it--the Virgin herself has given it to me."

It seemed this was true. In a few months from then the people who
strolled in the Public Garden on Sunday looked at a beautiful young
couple who walked together.

"There are two who are mad with love for each other," it was said.
"Sebastiano and his wife. She is the one he threw his _devisa_ to when
he thought himself a dead man. They used to call her 'the pretty sister
of Jose.'"

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