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On the Bright Shore
But he approached her quickly, and, taking her two hands, began to speak, looking at her with the greatest tenderness in his eyes.
"There is a way, dear lady, there is a way! Do you not divine it?"
And when she grew pale from happiness, he pressed both her palms to his breast and added,—
"Give me thyself and thine—"
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