and I am glad I chanced to overhear you , since you would never have had the courage to tell me otherwise . Glad -- glad ! Do you understand , Jasper ? '' Jasper looked at her with the eyes of one who , looking through pain , sees rapture beyond . `` Is it possible ? '' he said , wonderingly . `` Alice -- I am so much older than you -- and they call me the Awkward Man -- they say I am unlike other people '' -- `` You ARE unlike other people , '' she said softly , `` and that is why I love you . I know now that I must have loved you ever since I saw you . '' `` I loved you long before I saw you , '' said Jasper . He came close to her and drew her into his arms , tenderly and reverently , all his shyness and awkwardness swallowed up in the grace of his great happiness . In the old garden he kissed her lips and Alice entered into her own . CHAPTER XXVI . UNCLE BLAIR COMES HOME It happened that the Story Girl and I both got up very early on the morning of the Awkward Man 's wedding day . Uncle Alec was going to Charlottetown that day , and I , awakened at daybreak by the sounds in the kitchen beneath us , remembered that I had forgotten to ask him to bring me a certain school-book I wanted . So I hurriedly dressed and hastened down to tell him before he went . I was joined on the stairs by the Story Girl , who said she had wakened and , not feeling like going to sleep again , thought she might as well get up . `` I had such a funny dream last night , '' she said . `` I dreamed that I heard a voice calling me from away down in Uncle Stephen 's Walk -- ` Sara , Sara , Sara , ' it kept calling . I did n't know whose it was , and yet it seemed like a voice I knew . I wakened up while it was calling , and it seemed so real I could hardly believe it was a dream .
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