. So, not
exactly hopefully but earnestly, she returned to the feet of God. He reached for
her chin and lifted it up. ’
The familiar hollow opened up inside Melusine’s chest, and she could not
prevent the husky note that entered her voice. Lucia, you will come to love me and all the
blessings of the Lord that marriage brings. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. “Only—I have come face to face—with something terrible, and wholly
unexpected trouble. The man who sat behind a pigeon-hole, and regulated the comings and
goings, was for a moment absent. He went by another name then,—Rykhart
Scherprechter I think he called himself. I give you the plain,
unadulterated truth.
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