Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring

Author:Howard Spring [Spring, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Published: 2021-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

And our eternal home.

I know, I know, her heart cried, that those words have nothing to do with a window lit on Baildon Moor in a snowstorm. But why shouldn’t they have? Eternal? The word daunted her, out there in the elemental night, on the moor that had never bowed to the mood of man, that had known neither ploughshare nor sickle since first it took form from chaos. So many lives had come and gone, leaving no more trace than there would be of the ling and bent-grass, when morning followed this night.

“My dear,” she said, “are you certain?”

“Certain?”

“That this is for always and always.”

“For always and always,” he said.

“It seems such a little light.”

“It is enough to love by.”

He helped her over the wall, and they half-climbed, half-tumbled on to the other side.

“Open the door,” he said, “and go in. Let love be there to welcome me.”

He followed her in and drew a heavy curtain across the window in front of the red muslin through which the light had shone. He had put a match to the fire. Dry heather-roots and pine-knots were blazing and the coal was beginning to splutter. The lamp shone down from the ceiling. He took off her snowy fur hat and coat and hung them with his own behind the door. Then he took her in his arms. “We’ve hidden the light,” he murmured into her hair that smelt like warm cornstalks and was their colour. “No wanderer can see us. We shall open to no one. This is the little warm space of our love. To-night, it is for us alone.”

He put out the lamp, and presently the roaring of the stove died down to a steady warmth. And the roaring of their hearts and nerves died down as they slept in one another’s arms, with the snow falling soundlessly upon their roof and upon the empty miles around them—falling pitilessly, remorselessly, like the obliterating years that have so much to give, that they may take all away in the end.

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