"You are the loveliest being my eyes ever rested on."
"This was my best dress last year. I did it up and mended it this morning. It's home-woven like the one I—like the other one you said you liked."
David smiled, looking up into the gray eyes with the green lights and blue depths in them. How serene and poised her manner was, on the verge of the momentous step she was about to take, while his own heart was beating high. He wondered if she really comprehended the change it was to make in her life, that she showed no apprehension or fear.
"Cassandra, do you realize that in fifteen minutes you will be my wife? It will be a great change for you, dearest. In spite of all I can do, you may be sad sometimes, and I may ask of you things you don't want to do."
"I've been sad already in my life, and done things I didn't want to do. I don't guess you could change that—only God could."
"And you don't feel in the least disturbed? Your heart doesn't beat any harder nor your breath come quicker? Tell me how you feel."
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She smiled and drew a long breath. "I don't know how it is. Everything is right peaceful and sweet outside—the sky and the hills and all the birds—even the wind is still in the trees, like