Excerpt: ...time that Valentine set out to seek his unhappy Michal. Pg 168 CHAPTER XXI. Is full of good tidings, inasmuch as it treats of the discomfiture of evil-doers. Simplex had quite won Valentine's heart by warning him of the dangers threatening his sweetheart which he had overheard in the robber's camp. It is true he did not tell him the whole truth for fear of frightening him too much, or even making him lose courage altogether. But so much he did tell him: that Catsrider, instead of taking his Michal to the ...
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Excerpt: ...time that Valentine set out to seek his unhappy Michal. Pg 168 CHAPTER XXI. Is full of good tidings, inasmuch as it treats of the discomfiture of evil-doers. Simplex had quite won Valentine's heart by warning him of the dangers threatening his sweetheart which he had overheard in the robber's camp. It is true he did not tell him the whole truth for fear of frightening him too much, or even making him lose courage altogether. But so much he did tell him: that Catsrider, instead of taking his Michal to the parsonage which, as a curer of souls, he ought to have occupied, had remained in his father's house, where they had treated Michal very cruelly. But he added that, sooner or later, the robbers would destroy the house, and then Michal had a most terrible fate to expect. "What shall I do? Merciful Heaven, what shall I do?" groaned poor Valentine. "My dear fellow," said Simplex, "what you have to do is perfectly plain. You must carry off your beloved from the place at once." "But that would be a sin against God." "Yet you'll do it all same. Just you come along with me. One word with her, one look at her, and I'm sure you'll do what I've said." "God preserve me from so great a sin." "Now just listen to me. I'm a Lutheran. I don't believe in predestination. But you are a Calvinist. You are bound to believe in it. You know for certain that everything which happens, or may happen to you, is al Pg 169 ready recorded in a great book which has been written before the beginning of the world. Your will can alter nothing therein, and if it is recorded of you that you must die on the top of a mountain, and you don't go up the mountain, the summit will come down to you and place itself beneath your feet. I say you have only got to take the first step, and all the other steps will follow as a matter of course. If you resolve to see your beloved, you will never leave her again, but will bring her back with you, though you walked in the shadow of the gallows all the...
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