The Torrents Of Spring
The Torrents Of Spring
The Torrents Of Spring
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morning, in one of the public gardens which surround Frankfort on all<br />
sides.<br />
How his heart throbbed! How glad he was that he had obeyed her so<br />
unconditionally! And, my God, what was promised … what was not<br />
promised, by that unknown, unique, impossible, and undubitably certain<br />
morrow!<br />
He feasted his eyes on Gemma’s note. <strong>The</strong> long, elegant tail of the letter<br />
G, the first letter of her name, which stood at the bottom of the sheet,<br />
reminded him of her lovely fingers, her hand… . He thought that he had<br />
not once touched that hand with his lips… . ‘Italian women,’ he mused,<br />
‘in spite of what’s said of them, are modest and severe… . And Gemma<br />
above all! Queen … goddess … pure, virginal marble… .’<br />
‘But the time will come; and it is not far off… .’ <strong>The</strong>re was that night in<br />
Frankfort one happy man… . He slept; but he might have said of himself<br />
in the words of the poet:<br />
‘I sleep … but my watchful heart sleeps not.’<br />
And it fluttered as lightly as a butterfly flutters his wings, as he stoops<br />
over the flowers in the summer sunshine.<br />
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