The beautiful head was withdrawn . Lightfoot 's heart sank . Then he bounded forward into that thicket . He more than half expected to find no one there , but when he entered that thicket he received the most wonderful surprise in all his life . There stood Miss Daintyfoot , timid , bashful , but with a look in her eyes which Lightfoot could not mistake . In that instant Light-foot understood the meaning of that longing which had kept him hunting for her and of the rage which had filled him when he had discovered the presence of the big stranger from the Great Mountain . It was love . Lightfoot knew that he loved Miss Daintyfoot and , looking into her soft , gentle eyes , he knew that Miss Daintyfoot loved him . CHAPTER XL : Happy Days In The Green Forest These were happy days in the Green Forest . At least , they were happy for Lightfoot the Deer . They were the happiest days he had ever known . You see , he had won beautiful , slender , young Miss Daintyfoot , and now she was no longer Miss Daintyfoot but Mrs. Lightfoot . Lightfoot was sure that there was no one anywhere so beautiful as she , and Mrs. Lightfoot knew that there was no one so handsome and brave as he . Wherever Lightfoot went , Mrs. Lightfoot went . He showed her all his favorite hiding-places . He led her to his favorite eating-places . She did not tell him that she was already acquainted with every one of them , that she knew the Green Forest quite as well as he did . If he had stopped to think how day after day she had managed to keep out of his sight while he hunted for her , he would have realized that there was little he could show her which she did not already know . But he did n't stop to think and proudly led her from place to place . And Mrs. Lightfoot wisely expressed delight with all she saw quite as if it were all new .
Of course , all the little people of the Green Forest hurried to pay their respects to Mrs. Lightfoot and to tell XXXXX how glad they felt for him .
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