You have only to know what my love for him is! The thought of losing him goes like perishing cold through my bones;--my heart jerks, as if it had to pull up my body from the grave every time it beats...." "God in heaven!" cried the horrified merchant, on whose susceptible nerves these images wrought with such a force that he absolutely had dread of her.

He gasped, and felt at his heart, and then at his pulse; rubbed the moisture from his forehead, and throwing a fixedly wild look on her eyes, he jumped up and left her kneeling.
His caress had implied mercy to Emilia: for she could not reconcile it with the rejection of the petition of her soul.

She was now a little bewildered to see him trotting the room, frowning and blinking, and feeling at one wrist, at momentary pauses, all his words being: "Let's be quiet.

Let's be good.

Let's go to bed, and say our prayers;" mingled with short ejaculations.
"I may say," she intercepted him, "I may tell my dear lover that you bless us both, and that we are to live.