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Updated: June 29, 2025
Seraphita, or Seraphitus the name is designedly spelt both ways in different parts of the book is an attempt on the novelist's part to represent in fiction the dual sex of the soul. The scene is laid in the fiords of Norway. There, in a village, we meet with a person of mysterious nature who is loved simultaneously by a man and a woman, and who is regarded by each as being of the opposite sex.
That face of purest marble expressed in all things strength and peace. Minna rose to take the hand of Seraphitus, hoping thus to draw him to her, and to lay on that seductive brow a kiss given more from admiration than from love; but a glance at the young man's eyes, which pierced her as a ray of sunlight penetrates a prism, paralyzed the young girl.
"We are a third of the way up the Ice-Cap," she said, looking at the peak to which she gave the popular name by which it is known in Norway; "I can hardly believe it." Too much out of breath to say more, she smiled at Seraphitus, who, without answering, laid his hand upon her heart and listened to its sounding throbs, rapid as those of a frightened bird.
Certain inhabitants of Jarvis, having approached Monsieur Seraphitus as he stood on the shore, heard him repeat those blissful words of Scripture: 'How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of Him who is sent of God! "I had left the parsonage on my way to baptize the infant and name it, and perform the other duties required by law, when I met the baron returning to the house.
Presently the charming pair glided across the fiord and reached the snow-field which divides the shore from the first range of houses; then, hurrying forward as daylight faded, they sprang up the hill toward the parsonage, as though they were mounting the steps of a great staircase. "My father must be anxious," said Minna. "No," answered Seraphitus.
Seraphitus breathed softly on her forehead and eyes. Suddenly, like a traveller relaxed after a bath, Minna forgot these keen emotions, already dissipated by that caressing breath which penetrated her body and filled it with balsamic essences as quickly as the breath itself had crossed the air. "Who art thou?" she said, with a feeling of gentle terror. "Ah, but I know! thou art my life.
"One of them, see, this one," she added, selecting a flower, "is like that you found on the Falberg." Seraphitus looked alternately at the flower and at Minna. "Why question me? Dost thou doubt me?" "No," said the young girl, "my trust in you is infinite. You are more beautiful to look upon than this glorious nature, but your mind surpasses in intellect that of all humanity.
When I have been with you I seem to have prayed to God. I long " "For what?" said Seraphitus, with a glance that revealed to the young girl the vast distance which separated them. "To suffer in your stead." "Ah, dangerous being!" cried Seraphitus in his heart. "Is it wrong, oh my God! to desire to offer her to Thee?
"Why dost thou not weep when I weep?" said Minna, in a broken voice. "They who are all spirit do not weep," replied Seraphitus rising; "Why should I weep? I see no longer human wretchedness. Here, Good appears in all its majesty. There, beneath us, I hear the supplications and the wailings of that harp of sorrows which vibrates in the hands of captive souls.
"Seraphitus! dost thou not love me? come back!" she cried. "Thy danger renews my terror. Who art thou to have such superhuman power at thy age?" she asked as she felt his arms inclosing her once more. "But, Minna," answered Seraphitus, "you look fearlessly at greater spaces far than that."
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