belonged, I believe, to the aunt. In an hour we could not recognize each
o'clock in the morning it was time for supper.
We had ransacked all the closets; there was one near me that remained
of which I have already spoken, the one in which Brigitte was accustomed
hand and taking the book.html">book down. "If I may, allow me to look at it."
I opened the book, although Brigitte made a gesture as if to prevent me;
of all that Brigitte had suffered on my account since she had been my
so long as I loved her, and to die when I left her. Her daily life.html">life was
experienced even.html">even in my presence, the barrier that was growing up between
resignation. All this was written down without a complaint; on the
the disposition of her effects. She would end her life by poison, she
death should be charged to me. "Pray for him!" were her last words.
I found in the closet on the same shelf a little box that I remembered I
gave vent to a scream of terror and threw herself upon me.
"Brigitte," I said, "bid me farewell. I shall carry this box away with
becoming a murderer. I shall set out this very night; you will agree
door. It was still raining when I entered the carriage. At the moment
spent itself on my lips.
It was Brigitte. I did all I could to persuade her to remain; I ordered
should have effaced the memory of the wrongs I had done her. I forced
yesterday; I repeated that I could only render her unhappy, that to
prayers, to vows, to threats even; her only reply was: "You are going
past. We can not live here; let us go elsewhere, wherever you please;
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