Ronald came and went daily,
spending long hours with Sybil in the garden, and growing more manly and
quiet in his happiness, while Sybil grew ever fairer in the gradual
perfecting of her beauty. It was comforting to Joe to see them together,
knowing what honest hearts they were. She occupied herself as she could
with books and a few letters, but she would often sit for hours in a deep
chair under the overhanging porch, where the untrimmed honeysuckle waved
in the summer breeze like a living curtain, and the birds would come and
swing themselves upon its tendrils. But Joe's cheek was always pale, and
her heart weary with longing and with fighting against the poor imprisoned
love that no one must ever guess.
CHAPTER XXI.
The wedding-day was fixed for the middle of August, and the ceremony was
to take place in Newport. It is not an easy matter to arrange the marriage
of two young people neither of whom has father or mother, though their
subsequent happiness is not likely to suffer much by the bereavement.
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