'
'I don't know about injuries,' he said, getting up and walking
about the room. 'But I am sure of this. You will have to be my
wife.'
'If your father will take me by the hand and say that I shall be
his daughter, I will risk the rest. Even then it might not be
wise; but we love each other too well not run some peril. Do you
think I want anything better than to preside in your home, to
soften you cares, to welcome your joys, to be mother perhaps of
your children, and to know that you are proud that I should be so?
No, my darling. I can see a Paradise;--only, only, I may not be
fit to enter it. I must use some judgement better that my own,
sounder, dear, than yours. Tell the Duke what I say;--tell him that
with what language a son may use to his father. And remember that
all you ask for yourself you will ask doubly for me.'
'I will ask him so that he cannot refuse me.'
'If you do I shall be contented. And now go. I have said ever so
much, and I am tired.'
'Isabel! Oh, my love.'
'Yes; Isabel;--your love! I am that at any rate for the present,--
and proud to be so as a queen.
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