The Blue Castle by Montgomery Lucy Maud
Author:Montgomery, Lucy Maud [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Historical, Classic, Young Adult, Chick-Lit, Children
ISBN: 9781550026665
Amazon: 1550026666
Goodreads: 95693
Publisher: Starfire
Published: 1926-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER XXI
Weâll just sit here,â said Barney, âand if we think of anything worth while saying weâll say it. Otherwise, not. Donât imagine youâre bound to talk to me.â
âJohn Foster says,â quoted Valancy, ââIf you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends youâll never be and you need not waste time in trying.ââ
âEvidently John Foster says a sensible thing once in a while,â conceded Barney.
They sat in silence for a long while. Little rabbits hopped across the road. Once or twice an owl laughed out delightfully. The road beyond them was fringed with the woven shadow lace of trees. Away off to the southwest the sky was full of silvery little cirrus clouds above the spot where Barneyâs island must be.
Valancy was perfectly happy. Some things dawn on you slowly. Some things come by lightning flashes. Valancy had had a lightning flash.
She knew quite well now that she loved Barney. Yesterday she had been all her own. Now she was this manâs. Yet he had done nothingâsaid nothing. He had not even looked at her as a woman. But that didnât matter. Nor did it matter what he was or what he had done. She loved him without any reservations. Everything in her went out wholly to him. She had no wish to stifle or disown her love. She seemed to be his so absolutely that thought apart from himâthought in which he did not predominateâwas an impossibility.
She had realised, quite simply and fully, that she loved him, in the moment when he was leaning on the car door, explaining that Lady Jane had no gas. She had looked deep into his eyes in the moonlight and had known. In just that infinitesimal space of time everything was changed. Old things passed away and all things became new.
She was no longer unimportant, little old maid Valancy Stirling. She was a woman, full of love and therefore rich and significantâ justified to herself. Life was no longer empty and futile, and death could cheat her of nothing. Love had cast out her last fear.
Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it wasâ this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond. No dream had ever been like this. She was no longer solitary. She was one of a vast sisterhoodâall the women who had ever loved in the world.
Barney need never know itâthough she would not in the least have minded his knowing. But SHE knew it and it made a tremendous difference to her. Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendour of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
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