Then I remembered that
if I carried out that insane threat I should indeed lose Yoletta, and
the very thought of such a loss was more than I could endure; and for a
moment I almost hated the love which made me so helpless and
miserable--so powerless to oppose their stupid and barbarous practices.
It would have been sweet then to have felt free--free to fling them a
curse, and go away, shaking the dust of their house from my shoes,
supposing that any dust had adhered to them.
Then Edra began to speak again, and gravely and sorrowfully, but without
a touch of austerity in her tone or manner, censured me for making use
of such irrational language, and for allowing bitter, resentful thoughts
to enter my heart. But the despondence and sullen rage into which I had
been thrown made me proof even against the medicine of an admonition
imparted so gently, and, turning my face away, I stubbornly refused to
make any reply. For a while she was silent, but I misjudged her when I
imagined that she would now leave me, offended, to my own reflections.
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