Jeffery Farnol

“ Oh! I know you have paid off the mortgage—you have bought back my home for me as you bought back my furniture! Why?—why? I was nothing to you, or you to me,—why have you laid me under this obligation,—you know I can never hope to return your money—oh! why,—why did you do it?”
“Because I—love you, Anthea, have loved you from the first. Because everything I possess in this world is yours—even as I am.”
“You forget!” she broke in proudly, “you forget—”
“Everything but my love for you, Anthea,—everything but that I want you for my wife. ”

“ Lower he bent, and lower, until his lips touched her hair, until beneath that fragrant veil, his mouth sought, and found, her’s; and, in that breathless moment, he felt them quiver responsive to his caress. ”

“ Belloo sir, an’—’twixt you an’ me, sir, I ain’t been much of a pray-er myself since my old mother died. Anyhow, the mortgage be paid oft, sir, Miss Anthea’s free, an”tis jy’ful, an’ ’appy-’earted I be this night. Prudence an’ me’ll be gettin’ married soon now,—an’ when I think of her cookin’—Lord, Mr. Belloo sir!—All as I say is God bless Master Georgy! Good-night, sir! an’ may your dreams be as ’appy as mine,—always supposin’ I do dream,—which is seldom. Good-night, sir!”
Long after Adam’s cheery whistle had died away, Bellew sat, pipe in mouth, staring up at the moon. ”