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That evening Ronald telegraphed to Joe the news of his engagement, and the
next day he wrote her a long letter, which was more remarkable for the
redundant passion expressed than for the literary merit of the expression.
It seemed far easier to write it since he had seen her and talked with her
about Sybil, not because he felt in the least ashamed of having fallen in
love within six months of the dissolution of his former engagement with
Joe, but because it seemed a terribly difficult thing to speak to any one
about Sybil. Ronald was very far from being poetical, or in any way given
to lofty and medieval reflections of the chivalric sort, but he was a very
honest fellow, loving for the first time, and he understood that his love
was something more to be guarded and respected than anything that had yet
come into his life; wherefore it seemed almost ungentlemanly to speak
about it.
When Joe received the intelligence her satisfaction knew no bounds, for
although she had guessed that the climax of the affair was not far off,
she had not expected it so very soon.
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