Later in the evening David re-entered the salon."I know who it is you have come to announce," said Seraphita in a sleepy voice. "Wilfrid mayenter."Hearing these words a man suddenly presented himself, crossed the room and sat down besideher."My dear Seraphita, are you ill?" he said. "You look paler than usual."She turned slowly towards him, tossing back her hair like a pretty woman whose aching headleaves her no strength even for complaint."I was foolish enough to cross the fiord with Minna," she said. "We ascended the ...
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Later in the evening David re-entered the salon."I know who it is you have come to announce," said Seraphita in a sleepy voice. "Wilfrid mayenter."Hearing these words a man suddenly presented himself, crossed the room and sat down besideher."My dear Seraphita, are you ill?" he said. "You look paler than usual."She turned slowly towards him, tossing back her hair like a pretty woman whose aching headleaves her no strength even for complaint."I was foolish enough to cross the fiord with Minna," she said. "We ascended the Falberg.""Do you mean to kill yourself?" he said with a lover's terror."No, my good Wilfrid; I took the greatest care of your Minna."Wilfrid struck his hand violently on a table, rose hastily, and made several steps towards the doorwith an exclamation full of pain; then he returned and seemed about to remonstrate."Why this disturbance if you think me ill?" she said."Forgive me, have mercy!" he cried, kneeling beside her. "Speak to me harshly if you will; exact allthat the cruel fancies of a woman lead you to imagine I least can bear; but oh, my beloved, do notdoubt my love. You take Minna like an axe to hew me down. Have mercy!""Why do you say these things, my friend, when you know that they are useless?" she replied, witha look which grew in the end so soft that Wilfrid ceased to behold her eyes, but saw in their place afluid light, the shimmer of which was like the last vibrations of an Italian song."Ah! no man dies of anguish!" he murmured."You are suffering?" she said in a voice whose intonations produced upon his heart the sameeffect as that of her look. "Would I could help you!""Love me as I love you.""Poor Minna!" she replied."Why am I unarmed!" exclaimed Wilfrid, violently."You are out of temper," said Seraphita, smiling. "Come, have I not spoken to you like thoseParisian women whose loves you tell of?"Wilfrid sat down, crossed his arms, and looked gloomily at Seraphita. "I forgive you," he said;"for you know not what you do.""You mistake," she replied; "every woman from the days of Eve does good and evil knowingly.""I believe it," he said."I am sure of it, Wilfrid. Our instinct is precisely that which makes us perfect. What you menlearn, we feel."
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