[I Will Repay by Baroness Emmuska Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookI Will Repay CHAPTER VII 3/5
I'd have tried to save the Queen, even if I had never learned to love Juliette.
But you see now how unjust were your suspicions." "Had I any ?" "Don't deny it.
You were loud in urging me to burn those papers a moment ago.
You called them useless and dangerous and now ..." "I still think them useless and dangerous, and by reading them would wish to confirm my opinion and give weight to my arguments." "If I were to part from them now I would seem to be mistrusting her." "You are a mad idealist, my dear Deroulede!" "How can I help it? I have lived under the same roof with her for three weeks now.
I have begun to understand what a saint is like." "And 'twill be when you understand that your idol has feet of clay that you'll learn the real lesson of love," said Blakeney earnestly. "Is it love to worship a saint in heaven, whom you dare not touch, who hovers above you like a cloud, which floats away from you even as you gaze? To love is to feel one being in the world at one with us, our equal in sin as well as in virtue.
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