`` Oh , Eric , I can speak , -- I can speak ! Oh , it is so wonderful ! Eric , I love you -- I love you ! '' CHAPTER XVIII . NEIL GORDON SOLVES HIS OWN PROBLEM `` It is a miracle ! '' said Thomas Gordon in an awed tone . It was the first time he had spoken since Eric and Kilmeny had rushed in , hand in hand , like two children intoxicated with joy and wonder , and gasped out their story together to him and Janet . `` Oh , no , it is very wonderful , but it is not a miracle , '' said Eric . `` David told me it might happen . I had no hope that it would . He could explain it all to you if he were here . '' Thomas Gordon shook his head . `` I doubt if he could , Master -- he , or any one else . It is near enough to a miracle for me . Let us thank God reverently and humbly that he has seen fit to remove his curse from the innocent . Your doctors may explain it as they like , lad , but I 'm thinking they wo n't get much nearer to it than that . It is awesome , that is what it is . Janet , woman , I feel as if I were in a dream . Can Kilmeny really speak ? '' `` Indeed I can , Uncle , '' said Kilmeny , with a rapturous glance at Eric .
`` Oh , I do n't know how it came XXXXX me -- I felt that I MUST speak -- and I did .
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