[Stella Fregelius by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link book
Stella Fregelius

CHAPTER XXI
22/26

No one else?
Yes; three others.

He would remember, however much he loved me, for I should have brought him to do a shameful act.

And she would remember, whom I had robbed of her husband, coming into his life after he had promised himself to her.

Last of all--most of all, perhaps--I myself should remember, day by day, and hour by hour, that I was nothing more than one of the family of thieves.
"No; I will have none of such philosophy; at least I, Stella Fregelius, will live and die among the upright.

So I go to my cold marriage, such as it is; so I bend my back to the burden, so I bow my head to the storm; and throughout it all I thank God for what he has been pleased to send me.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books