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Updated: June 5, 2025
What a fearful penalty that the man should continually see before him in the heavens that shining witness, eternally recalling him to his first sin, the first fateful error of his ruined life! The next day Michael left the island: he passed by the unfinished walnut-wood house without even glancing at it. "You will return with the spring flowers," whispered Noémi tenderly in his ear.
Theodor felt in his breeches-pocket, fumbled a long time, made at last a terrible grimace, and stared on the ground. "It is lost!" groaned he, turning his pocket out, and showing the treacherous hole through which the valuable engagement-ring with the four-carat diamond had escaped. Noémi broke into a hearty laugh.
Noemi was a grave, sad woman, very lonely ever since she had saved enough to send her son to study for the ministry in Switzerland, and with an aching heart that longed to be at rest from the toil that she looked on as a steep ladder on her way to a better home.
"Then you must hold your hand shut, or he will jump out; but not too tight so as to press him. And now let us go, for the dew is falling, and the grass is wet." They turned homeward, and Noémi ran on, calling from afar to Therese, "Mother, mother, see what we have caught! a beautiful bird." Mamma Therese prepared to scold her daughter severely.
Surely the Signorina had no secrets from them; at least not from her sister, if perhaps from her brother-in-law. Even this indirect appeal to Maria was of no avail, for Noemi remarked, with much embarrassment, that these secrets were not her own. The Selvas withdrew. Benedetto remained standing, and did not invite Noemi to be seated.
Nevertheless Jeanne and Noerni leaned for some time against the parapet, gazing into the gloomy depths; Noemi talked incessantly.
"But you see in these tones they express their tender affection for their little wives, for among frogs only the little husband has a voice the lady is dumb. The frog exclaims all night to his wife, 'How lovely, how charming you are! Can there be a more affectionate creature than a frog?" Noémi was beginning to look at it from the sentimental side. "Then, too, the frog is a learned animal.
Even now I cannot hear "Nous n'irons plus an bois," or "Il pleut, il pleut, bergère" without my heart beating rather more quickly than is its wont. There can be no doubt that but for the fatal vice which held me fast, I should have been in love with Noémi two or three years later; but I was a slave to reasoning, and my whole time was devoted to religious dialectics.
I shall have to get rid of her in the end. The stupid beast!" When the young man got near Noémi, he stretched out his hand with a familiar smile toward the girl's face, as if he would have pinched her cheek; but she drew her face quickly away. "Well, my dear little fiancée, are you still so shy? How you have grown since I saw you!" Noémi looked at the speaker with her head thrown back.
Carlino could find nothing to say but "Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh!" and Noemi carried Jeanne off with her, following the railing of the little cemetery of Saint-Sauveur. It seemed the right moment for her final revelation. "I really believe Giovanni is right, you know," said she. "This Don Clemente comes from Brescia."
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