5/33 She must have fallen asleep, knocked down by fatigue. What fatigue it must have been to make Grizel lie there for hours he could guess, and he beat his brow in anguish. But why she had come he could not guess. "Oh, miserable man, to seek for reasons," he cried passionately to himself, "when it is Grizel--Grizel herself--you should be seeking for!" He walked and ran the round of the lake, and it was not on the bank that his staring eyes were fixed. The people of an inn six miles from St.Gian remembered being asked yesterday by an English miss, walking alone, how far she was from Bad-Platten. |