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The Strolling Saint

CHAPTER II
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Her lips moved awhile in silence; and whether she was at her everlasting prayers, or whether she was endeavouring to speak but could not for emotion, I do not know.

At last her voice came, laden with a chill reproach.
"Agostino!" she said, and waited as if for some answer from me.
It was in that instant that rebellion stirred in me.

Her coming had turned me cold, for all that my body was overheated from the exercise and I was sweating furiously.

Now, at the sound of her voice, something of the injustice that oppressed me, something of the unreasoning bigotry that chained and fettered me, stood clear before my mental vision for the first time.

It warmed me again with the warmth of sullen indignation.


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