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Before me stood my love, a slim, tragic, rather wan figure in a heavy dark traveling-coat and felt toque, her sweet lips parted and a look of bewildered amazement upon her countenance as I burst in so suddenly upon her.
In silence I grasped her tiny black-gloved hand, and then, also in silence, raised it passionately to my eager lips. Her soft, dark eyes -- those eyes that spoke although she was mute -- met mine, and in them was a look that I had never seen there before -- a look which as plainly as any words told me that my wild fevered passion was reciprocated.