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Updated: May 25, 2025
She had been, for a time, caged; but now she was perfectly free, for six more months at least. She trusted to be out of the difficulty by then. Why; she did not know; something within her seemed to assure her that it would be so. When, a week afterwards, Tom Soher was taken ill, she thought of that strange certainty which she had had. Was he going to die?
I thought you would come sooner." Adèle thought: "What a state the house would have been in, if I had arrived an hour earlier." Mrs. Soher began to dust a secretaire, talking all the while to her niece.
"And will you answer my question?" he continued. She looked down. "What can he mean?" she said inly. The twilight partly hid the deep blush that suffused her cheek. He noticed her embarrassment and hastily spoke: "I was going to say this. Some time ago, I heard that you were engaged to a young man named Tom Soher. Would you be kind enough to explain me the riddle.
He could recognize some former companions who now were deceased. Their bodies served instead of stones, and their souls he discerned, placed in lieu of windows. Amidst the horrible mass of human flesh, he saw his father's body, crushed and terribly mangled; his face wore an expression of suffering, his whole body seemed borne down by a heavy and oppressive weight. Tom Soher looked at his father.
"When we returned to our work, do you know what we saw?" "No!" "We beheld the book laid upon the table." Tommy opened his mouth wide enough as to be in danger of dislocation, then he closed it with an exclamation: "Ah-a!" Adèle dared scarcely breathe. "That's not all," continued Mrs. Soher, "we were determined to get rid of the book. This is what we did.
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