Chilled by the frosty air, and stiff and sore from long
standing in a constrained position, he limped away, and disappeared in the
deeper shadows of the woods.
Arthur's words of warning had taken their desired effect; and cowardly, as
base, wicked, and cruel, the man made haste to flee from the scene of his
intended crime, imagining at times that he even heard the bloodhounds
already on his track.
CHAPTER TENTH.
"At last I know thee--and my soul,
From all thy arts set free,
Abjures the cold consummate art
Shrin'd as a soul in thee."
--SARA J. CLARK.
The rest of the winter passed quietly and happily with our friends at Ion
and the Oaks, Mr. Travilla spending nearly half his time at the latter
place, and in rides and walks with Elsie, whom he now and then coaxed to
Ion for a call upon his mother.
Their courtship was serene and peaceful: disturbed by no feverish heat of
passion, no doubts and fears, no lovers' quarrels, but full of a deep,
intense happiness, the fruit of their long and intimate friendship, their
full acquaintance with, and perfect confidence in each other, and their
strong love. Enna sneeringly observed that "they were more like some staid
old married couple than a pair of lovers.
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