: Loved you better than you knew by Miller Alex McVeigh Mrs - Dime novels; Romance fiction

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XL. A Late Repentance 224

Loved You Better Than You Knew

"Love! It began with a glance, Grew with the growing flowers, Smiled in a dreamful trance, Recked not the passage of hours.

"Grief! It began with a word, Grew with the winds that raved, A prayer for pardon unheard, Pardon in turn uncraved. The bridge so easy to sever, The stream so swift to be free, Till the brook became a river, And the river became a sea.

"Life! It began with a sigh, Grew with the leaves that are dead, Its pleasures with wings to fly, Its sorrows with wings of lead."

Could one lift the impenetrable veil of mystery that hides the future from our curious eyes, what secrets would often be revealed, what shadows would fall upon hearts now light and thoughtless--shadows of grief, of horror, and despair!

"It is better not to know," agree both the poets and sages.

Beautiful Cinthia Dawn did not think of that as she drummed upon the window-pane that rainy autumn day, exclaiming rebelliously:

"I wish something would happen to break up the dreadful monotony of my life."

Widow Flint, who was her aunt and guardian, and as crabbed and crusty as her name, looked at her with dismay, and retorted:

"Some people don't know when they're well off. You have enough to eat, to drink, and to wear, and a good home. What more do you want?"

The girl looked at the dingy sitting-room, her own shabby gray gown, then out at the dismal landscape, blurred by the rain and low-hanging clouds, with something like frank contempt, and answered, recklessly:

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