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The Two Dianas, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
The Two Dianas Vol 2 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Alexandre Dumas THE TWO DIANAS 5 "Who knows?" said he, questioning Heaven with eyes that had in them a gloomy presentiment "I know," implied Diana, with her charming smile. She was so enchanting when she said so that Gabriel, struck with her glorious beauty, and forgetting all other thoughts, could not help exclaiming- "Diana, you are beautiful as an angel I" "... more »And you valiant as a hero, Gabriel!" she replied. They were seated near each other. Their hands by chance met and clasped. Night was beginning to fall. Diana, blushing to the temples, rose and took some steps across the chamber. "You are leaving me, you are flying from me, Diana," said Gabriel, sadly. "Oh, no I" she returned quickly, going up to him. "With you, it is different; I am not afraid, my dear Gabriel." Diana was wrong. The danger was different; but it was still danger, and the friend was not less, perhaps, to be feared than the enemy. "Well and good," said Gabriel, taking the soft little white hand she aba
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4; THE TWO DIANAS; "How good it is to be near you, my love!" said Diana "Instead of the presence of that impious man whom I hated and who frightened me, what delight your reassuring and dear presence affords me I"; "And," said Gabriel, "since our infancy, when we were happy without knowing it, I do not remember, during my isolated and agitated life, a moment to be compared with this"; For a time they were silent, absorbed in mutual adoration Diana resumed:; "Come and sit close to me, Gabriel Would you believe it ? Even in captivity, I have dreamed and almost foreseen the moment that united us in such an unhoped-for fashion I had a surety that you would be my deliverer, and that in my last extremity God would bring you, my knight, to save me"; "And as to me, Diana, the thought of yoii," said Gabriel, "at once attracted me like a magnet and gu« less