"
"Hildreth ... listen to me ... this has been the greatest day in my
life, will always be! If I died now, I would go to death, singing....
"You're the most wonderful woman in the world....
"I want you to be mine forever....
"I know what it all means now....
"It's like Niagara, sweetheart ... one hears so much of it ... expects
so much ... that it seems disappointing, the first actuality....
"Then afterward, it's more than any dream ever dreamed of what it would
be!
"I want to work for you....
"I want to let you walk all over me with your little feet....
"I want you to kill me, sweetheart....
"I want to die for you....
"Hildreth, I love you!
"I'll tell Penton ... I'll tell everybody--'I love Hildreth! I love
Hildreth!'"
* * * * *
"Johnnie, my own sweet darling, my own dear, pure-hearted, mad, young
poet....
"Don't talk that way....
"Come to me again...."
* * * * *
"Penton must not know. Not yet. You must let _me_ tell him.
"It is my place to tell him, sweetest of men, my darling boy...."
* * * * *
"Go to your tent.
_"He'd see it in your eyes now."_
"No, I won't go to my tent. I'll go right up to the house."
* * * * *
"If he says anything to me I'll kill him.
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