a charmed life(迷人的生活)

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A CHARMED LIFE
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A CHARMED LIFE
A CHARMED LIFE
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She loved him so, that when he went away to a little war in which his
country was interested she could not understand, nor quite forgive.
As the correspondent of a newspaper, Chesterton had looked on at
other wars; when the yellow races met, when the infidel Turk spanked the
Christian Greek; and one he had watched from inside a British square,
where he was greatly alarmed lest he should be trampled upon by terrified
camels. This had happened before he and she had met. After they met,
she told him that what chances he had chosen to take before he came into
her life fell outside of her jurisdiction. But now that his life belonged to
her, this talk of his standing up to be shot at was wicked. It was worse
than wicked; it was absurd.
When the Maine sank in Havana harbor and the word "war" was
appearing hourly in hysterical extras, Miss Armitage explained her
position.
"You mustn't think," she said, "that I am one of those silly girls who
would beg you not to go to war."
At the moment of speaking her cheek happened to be resting against
his, and his arm was about her, so he humbly bent his head and kissed her,
and whispered very proudly and softly, "No, dearest."
At which she withdrew from him frowning.
"No! I'm not a bit like those girls," she proclaimed. "I merely tell
you YOU CAN'T GO! My gracious!" she cried, helplessly. She knew
the words fell short of expressing her distress, but her education had not
supplied her with exclamations of greater violence.
"My goodness!" she cried. "How can you frighten me so? It's not
like you," she reproached him. "You are so unselfish, so noble. You are
always thinking of other people. How can you talk of going to war--to
be killed--to me? And now, now that you have made me love you so?"
The hands, that when she talked seemed to him like swallows darting
and flashing in the sunlight, clutched his sleeve. The fingers, that he
would rather kiss than the lips of any other woman that ever lived, clung
to his arm. Their clasp reminded him of that of a drowning child he had
once lifted from the surf.
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"If you should die," whispered Miss Armitage. "What would I do.
What would I do!"
"But my dearest," cried the young man. "My dearest ONE! I've
GOT to go. It's our own war. Everybody else will go," he pleaded.
"Every man you know, and they're going to fight, too. I'm going only to
look on. That's bad enough, isn't it, without sitting at home? You
should be sorry I'm not going to fight."
"Sorry!" exclaimed the girl. "If you love me--"
"If I love you," shouted the young man. His voice suggested that he
was about to shake her. "How dare you?"
She abandoned that position and attacked from one more logical.
"But why punish me?" she protested. "Do I want the war? Do I
want to free Cuba? No! I want YOU, and if you go, you are the one
who is sure to be killed. You are so big--and so brave, and you will be
rushing in wherever the fighting is, and then--then you will die." She
raised her eyes and looked at him as though seeing him from a great
distance. "And," she added fatefully, "I will die, too, or maybe I will
have to live, to live without you for years, for many miserable years."
Fearfully, with great caution, as though in his joy in her he might crush
her in his hands, the young man drew her to him and held her close.
After a silence he whispered. "But, you know that nothing can happen to
me. Not now, that God has let me love you. He could not be so cruel.
He would not have given me such happiness to take it from me. A man
who loves you, as I love you, cannot come to any harm. And the man
YOU love is immortal, immune. He holds a charmed life. So long as
you love him, he must live."
The eyes of the girl smiled up at him through her tears. She lifted her
lips to his. "Then you will never die!" she said.
She held him away from her. "Listen!" she whispered. "What you
say is true. It must be true, because you are always right. I love you so
that nothing can harm you. My love will be a charm. It will hang around
your neck and protect you, and keep you, and bring you back to me.
When you are in danger my love will save you. For, while it lives, I live.
When it dies--"
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