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‘Is this your house, mother?’ I at length demanded, in the language which I thought she would best understand. ‘Yes, my house, my own house; the house of the broken-hearted.’ ‘Any other person’s house?’ I demanded. ‘My own house, the beggar’s house—the accursed house of Cromwell!’
He who knows the feeling of pride——” Here the Bernardine grew weak and fell back on the bed, and the Warden said, deeply moved:— “Great are the judgments of God! It is the truth! the truth! So is it you? and are you Jacek? the Soplica? in a monk’s cowl? Have you been living a beggar’s life!
Rather was the appeal the more poignant to the seeing eye, as the brave makeshift of the self-respecting poor strikes deeper than the beggar’s whine. The house was bare but for the few things that Alida could take in the wagon in which they made their flight.
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