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"Her strength with weakness is overlaid, Meek compliances veil her might, Him she stays by whom she is stayed. " "True Woman. " -- C. ROSSETTI.
They spent a long evening in their balcony, watched over by the wistful stars. There was much to talk of now that she knew all: and their happiness, snatched from the verge of extinction, had a new depth and consciousness, that is the guerdon of pain shared and conquered.