"

Smiling, he held out the white rose, but his mood had deepened until now
he looked down upon her as he had looked down upon her in the moonlit
forest. "This, beloved, is the symbol of my faith," he said. "Your eyes
took it from me that day at even-song. I hold it the dearer of the two,
for with it goes my honor that is as stainless as its petals. It is
worth more than life to me,--is it not worth some pricks to you?"

She took it from him reverently, to lay it beside the other, and as her
face was too proud for fear so was it too tender for jesting. "I am more
honored," she told him, "than Canute by his crown; and I will live as
bravely to defend them."

But as he would have caught her to him, she leaned back suddenly to
stretch a hand toward a dark-robed figure standing under the moss-grown
arch, and her pride melted into a laugh of breathless happiness. "Sister
Wynfreda, you were very right," she called softly, "the world can be so
beautiful that one has no hunger for heaven."

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