The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco (cool books to read txt) 📖
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Again Johnson held out his arms to her.
"A new day--a new life--trust me, Girl."
In silence she slipped one hand into his; then she bowed her head and repeated solemnly:
"Yes--a new life."
Suddenly she drew a little away from him and faced the west again. Clinging tightly now to him with one hand, and the other raised high above her head, she cried in a voice that was fraught with such passionate longing that the man felt himself stirred to the very depths of his emotions:
"Oh, my mountains, I'm leavin' you! Oh, my California--my lovely West--my Sierras, I'm leavin' you!" She ended with a sob; but the next moment throwing herself into Johnson's arms she snuggled there, murmuring lovingly: "Oh, my home!"
A little while later, happy in their love and fearlessly eager to meet the trials of the days to come in a new country, they had mounted their mustangs and were riding eastward.
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