Under the Will And Other Tales. : By Mary Cecil Hay, ... in Three Volumes 2
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Close your eyes, for it is coming !'' Bent and frail, she stood in my embrace, with her eyes closed ; while the huge wave, which I could calmly stand and watch, THEOUGH THE BREAKERS. 163 came rolling on behind her. Then I held her down, firmly and steadily, beneath the water ; battling the while for my own life and breath. When at last the sea grew calm again, and we were tossed no longer at its wild strong will, I held her still with cruel hands, and under the waters I could see a white, dead ...face. And my strength had not failed me even yet, for I was holding her so, when they found us, and lifted us together ; whispering eagerly that one was living, but that the other had been for a long time dead. III. I DID not see Horace for a long time, so that, when at last they let me see him, the first bitterness of his grief was past. He asked me many things about that day, and I told him all — save the terrible truth that I had killed her. I told him how Elsie had clung to me in her fear, when that awful wind swept so suddenly across the sea; but how she had grown so weak at last m2 164 THEOUOH THE BREaKEES.
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