Gabriel came to
supper; it had been a hot day, and in the evening we walked
together, we three.
We watched the colours fade from the sky and the blue night deepen;
the little stars came one by one. The wind rose, soft and cool, and
there we stood, we three, under broad Heaven. I fell back a little,
and they went on side by side, silent and still. Not a word, not a
sign, but I knew, I, what peace was upon them, soothing the turmoil
of their blood. There they stood against the sky,--how I had watched
them, how I knew them,--oh, my heart, how I loved them! And it came
to me suddenly how hatefully I had been loving them.
Two women passed us on the road; they spoke of their dead, and one
of them said, "It is God's will."
I stood still and laughed aloud, so that my dears turned, wondering.
But I have repeated it to myself ever since. The woman spoke the
truth. For, God or no God, there is a Might against which we cannot
stand, and woe be unto those that lift their little wills against
the will of Nature. When two love, they must belong to each other;
when one loves, Miserere.
I will wait a day or two, until I have learned my lesson well, until
I am strong; then I will do what must be done.
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