Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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slumber. She had tried to cool her face with powder; I saw the traces
on her left temple. The sight of her moved me; I felt that I loved her deeply. Presently she stooped over some needlework. I saw that her breath came and went irregularly, and once or twice I intercepted a quick glance full of unsettled questions and trouble. In order to set her mind at rest I thrust myself into the conversation of the elder ladies, who were speaking about Sniatynski, and said:-- "Sniatynski considers me a kind of Hamlet, and says I philosophize too much; but I am going to show him that he is mistaken, and that not later than to-morrow." I laid some stress on the "to-morrow," and Aniela caught the meaning, for she gave me a long look; but my aunt, all unconscious, asked:-- "Are you going to see him to-morrow?" "We ought to go and see his play, and if Aniela agrees we will all go to-morrow." The dear girl looked at me shyly but trustingly, and said, with indescribable sweetness:-- "I will go with great pleasure." There was a moment when I could scarcely contain myself, and felt I ought to speak there and then; but I had said "to-morrow," and |
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