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His satisfaction at having at length made his power felt was too great for that. But by degrees there came a revulsion. Suppose he had killed her, and had to go into penal servitude for the rest of his life for it! Had such a possibility come into his life? Might it happen in the future? No! no! no! How strange that Angelika should have wounded him!
She rose, her husband hurried to her, and they left together. Rafael sat down again, with Angelika. Those near them looked towards them and whispered together. Angry and ashamed, he looked across at Angelika, who laughed. Everything seemed to turn red before his eyes he rose; he had a wild desire to kill her there, before every one.
A middle-aged woman, even though she be endowed with the strongest personality and the widest sympathy, when she wins a young husband who is the fashion wins him as Angelika won hers begins to live in perpetual disquietude lest any one should take him from her. Had she not taken him herself?
"Then take time," she interrupted in a whisper, and took a hasty kiss. "Oh, Rafael!" She twined her arms round him: her touch thrilled through him Some one knocked at the door: they started away from each other. It was the man who had come for the luggage. Rafael flushed crimson. "I shall not go till to-morrow," he said. When the man had left the room Angelika sprang towards Rafael.
As soon as his mother had felt sure that Angelika was not really enceinte she had busied herself in collecting all the information about her which it was possible to obtain. By the untiring efforts of her ubiquitous relations she had succeeded to such an extent and in such detail as no examining magistrate could have accomplished.
He believed that, up to this time, no human being had known anything about it. The merest suspicion that this was not the case made it altogether loathsome. The pension Angelika the letters. He would be hanged if he would go on with it for any earthly inducement. Had Angelika angled for him and landed him like a stupid fat fish? He had been absolutely unsuspicious.
The type therefore amused her: she studied it. Angelika Nagel relieved her of all her business cares, which were only play to her. It was the same thing with the question of the cement undertaking. In an apparently careless manner she let drop what had been said and done about it, which had its effect on Fru Kaas.
This absence of reserve was especially characteristic of her, and was another reason why all relied on her. She had long ago taken up Fru Kaas entertained her first and foremost. Angelika Nagel used in conversation modern Christiania slang which is the latest development of the language.
That night, long after his wife had fallen into her usual healthy sleep, Rafael thought sorrowfully of his lost Paradise. HE could not sleep. As he lay there he seemed to look out over a meadow, which had no springtime, and therefore no flowers. He retraced the events of the past day. His would be a marred life which had never known the sweet joys of courtship. Angelika did not share his beliefs.
Her mistress was about to take it, but it was not for her; it was for Angelika they both recognised Rafael's careless handwriting. Angelika opened it grew crimson; for he wrote that the result of his most serious considerations was, that neither she nor her children should be injured by him. He was an honourable man who would bear his own responsibilities, not let others be burdened by them.
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