de war is end'!"

"They laugh because de war is end'! I laugh too?" said Clethera,
relaxing to sobs. Tears and cries which had been shut up a day and a
night were let loose with French abandon. Honore opened his arms to
comfort her in the old manner, and although she rushed into them,
strange embarrassment went with her. The two could not look at each
other.

"It is de 'omesick," she explained. "When you go to war it make me
'omesick."

"Me, too," owned Honore. "I never know what it is before. I not mind de
fighting, but I am glad de war is end', account of de 'omesick!"

He pushed the hair from her wet face. The fate of temperament and the
deep tides of existence had them in merciless sweep.

"Clethera," represented Honore, "the rillation is not mix' bad with
Jules and Melinda."

Clethera let the assertion pass unchallenged.

"And this house, it pretty good house. You like it well as de hudder?"

"It have no loft," responded Clethera, faintly, "but de chimney not
smoke."

"We not want de 'omesick some more, Clethera--eh? You t'ink de fools is
all marry yet?"

Clethera laughed and raised her head from his arm, but not to look at
him or box his ear. She looked through the open door at an oblong of
little world, where the land was an amethyst strip betwixt lake and
horizon. Across that beloved background she saw the future pass: hale,
long years with Honore; the piled up wood of winter fires; her own home;
her children--the whole scheme of sweet and humble living.

"You t'ink, after all de folly we have see' in de family, Clethera, you
can go de lenk--to get marry?"

"I go dat lenk for you, Honore--but not for any huddur man."

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