[The Dream by Emile Zola]@TWC D-Link bookThe Dream CHAPTER XV 32/36
Barbara with her tower; Genevieve with her sheep; Cecilia with her viol; Agatha with her wounded breast; Elizabeth begging on the highways, and Catherine triumphing over the learned doctors.
She did not forget the miracle that made Lucy so heavy that a thousand men and five yoke of oxen could not carry her away: nor the Governor who became blind as he tried to embrace Anastasia.
Then others who seemed flying through the quiet night, still bearing marks of the wounds inflicted upon them by their cruel martyrdom, and from which rivers of milk were flowing instead of blood.
Ah! to die from love like them, to die in the purity of youth at the first kiss of a beloved one! Felicien had approached her. "I am the one person who really lives, Angelique, and you cannot give me up for mere fancies." "Dreams!--fancies!" she murmured. "Yes; for if in reality these visions seem to surround you, it is simply that you yourself have created them all.
Come, dear; no longer put a part of your life into objects about you, and they will be quiet." She gave way to a burst of enthusiastic feeling. "Oh no! Let them speak.
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