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180 THE SNAKE'S PASS.
" I thought yon remembered me, from that night when
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father came home with yon ?
There seemed some disappointment that I had so for-
gotten.
" That night," I said, " I did not see yon at all. It
was so dark, that I felt like a blind man—I only heard
your voice."
"I thought you remembered my voice."
The disappointment was still manifest. Fool that I
was !—that voice, once heard, should have sunk into my
memory for ever.
11 1 thought your voice was familiar when I heard you
on the hill-top ; but when I saw you, I loved you from
that moment—and then every other woman's voice in
!
the world went, for me, out of existence " She half
arose, but sat down again, and the happy blush once
more mantled her cheek — I felt that my peace was
made. "My name is Arthur." Here a thought struck
me—struck me for the first time, and sent through me
a thrill of unutterable delight. The moment she had
seen me she had mentioned my name—all unconsciously,
it is true—but she had mentioned it. I feared, however,
to alarm her by attracting her attention to it as yet, and
—
went on: "Arthur Severn—but I think yon know it."
" Yes I heard it mentioned up at Knocknacar."
;
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" Who by ?
"Andy the driver. He spoke to my aunt and me
when we were driving down, the day after we—after
we met on the hill-top the last time."