A Modern Chronicle — Volume 03

Project Gutenberg's A Modern Chronicle, Volume 3, by Winston ChurchillThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: A Modern Chronicle, Volume 3Author: Winston ChurchillRelease Date: October 19, 2004 [EBook #5376]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MODERN CHRONICLE, VOLUME 3 ***Produced by David WidgerA MODERN CHRONICLEBy Winston ChurchillBOOK IIVolume 3.CHAPTER ISO LONG AS YE BOTH SHALL LIVE!It was late November. And as Honora sat at the window of the drawing-room of the sleeping car, life seemed as fantasticand unreal as the moss-hung Southern forest into which she stared. She was happy, as a child is happy who is taken onan excursion into the unknown. The monotony of existence was at last broken, and riven the circumscribing walls.Limitless possibilities lay ahead.The emancipation had not been without its pangs of sorrow, and there were moments of retrospection—as now. Shesaw herself on Uncle Tom's arm, walking up the aisle of the old church. How many Sundays of her life had she satwatching a shaft of sunlight strike across the stone pillars of its gothic arches! She saw, in the chancel, tall and grave andpale, Peter Erwin standing beside the man with the flushed face who was to be her husband. She heard again ...