Name: Barbara Who Came Back — III. Aunt Maria
Author: H. Rider Haggard

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H. Rider Haggard, Barbara Who Came Back — III. Aunt Maria (1913)

“ For God’s sake, stop!” said Anthony, “I am a brute to have spoken like that, and I’m helpless; that’s the worst of it. Oh! my darling, don’t you understand? Don’t you understand?”
“No,” answered Barbara, shaking her head and beginning to cry.
“That I love you, that I have always loved you, and that I always shall love you until—until—the moon ceases to shine,” and he pointed to that orb which had appeared above the sea.
“They say it is dead already, and no doubt will come to an end in due course like everything else,” remarked Barbara, seeking to gain time. ”

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H. Rider Haggard, Barbara Who Came Back — III. Aunt Maria (1913)

“ The song of the nightingales was heavenly music in their ears, and the moon’s rays upon the sea were the road by which their linked souls travelled to the throne of Him who had lit their lamp of love, and made petition that through all life’s accidents and death’s darkness it might burn eternally. ”

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H. Rider Haggard, Barbara Who Came Back — III. Aunt Maria (1913)

“ The way of the man with the maid, and the way of the maid with the man, and the moon to light them, and the birds to sing the epithalamium of their hearts, and the great sea to murmur of eternity in their opened ears. Nature at her sweet work beneath the gentle night—who is there that will not say that it was nothing more? ”

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H. Rider Haggard, Barbara Who Came Back — III. Aunt Maria (1913)

“ For the love of these two was deep and faithful, and already seemed to them as though it were a thing they had lost a while, and found once more; a very precious jewel that from the beginning had shone upon their breasts; a guiding star that should light them to the end, which is the dawn of Endlessness. ”

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H. Rider Haggard, Barbara Who Came Back — III. Aunt Maria (1913)

“ So I am going to-morrow morning by the carrier’s cart.”
“Going?” gasped Anthony. “Where to?”
“To London first, then to Paris, then to Italy, to winter at Rome, and then goodness knows where. You see, my Aunt Maria has wanted to travel all her life, but Uncle Samuel, who was born in Putney, feared the sea, and lived and died in the very house in which he was born. Now Aunt Maria wants a change, and means to have it.”
Then Anthony broke out. “Damn the old woman! Why can’t she take her change wherever it is she wants to go to, and leave you alone?” ”

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H. Rider Haggard, Barbara Who Came Back — III. Aunt Maria (1913)

“ If my father died, Anthony, or even was taken ill—and he is not very strong—what would become of us? Unless Aunt Thompson chose to help, we should all have to go to the workhouse, for girls who have not been specially trained can earn nothing, except perhaps as domestic servants, if they are strong enough. I don’t want to go away and read to Aunt Maria, and take the pug-dog out walking, although it is true I should like to see Italy, but I must—can’t you understand?—I must. ”

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