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Updated: June 24, 2025
Amandus! at every town and city, sitting down forlorn at the gate Has Amandus! has my Amandus enter'd? till, going round, and round, and round the world chance unexpected bringing them at the same moment of the night, though by different ways, to the gate of Lyons, their native city, and each in well-known accents calling out aloud, Is Amandus / Is my Amanda still alive?
And Hiram had thereby partially satisfied the old boyhood grudge planted deep in his stormy temper when Batson Reeves had broken up the early attachment between Hiram Look and Amanda Purkis.
Amanda talked with him of his approaching wedding in a tone which was half playful and half sentimental, precisely as her feelings prompted her; for to a well-brought-up Italian girl, marriage is the herald of all earthly bliss, the entrance to that happy state in which uncertainty, restraint, and trouble cease, and unchecked freedom, new dresses, drives, and evenings at the opera, begin.
There had been much confused conversation and some singing, he was dog-tired and slept heavily, and when presently he was awakened by piercing screams he sat up in a darkness that seemed to belong neither to time nor place.... Near his feet was an ashen glow that gave no light. His first perplexity gave way to dismay at finding no Amanda by his side. "Amanda!" he cried....
She was not a "Miss Lucretia," traces of whom I yet remembered, and the more especially, as I saw them shining in the face of little Amanda, her daughter, now living under a step-mother's government. I had not forgotten the soft hand, guided by a tender heart, that bound up with healing balsam the gash made in my head by Ike, the son of Abel. Thomas and Rowena, I found to be a well-matched pair.
Then, having kissed Blondina, the second, as a sign of proprietorship, he proffered stout Amanda to Lieutenant Otto; Eva, "the Tomato," to Sub-lieutenant Fritz, and Rachel, the shortest of them all, a very young, dark girl, with eyes as black as ink, a Jewess, whose snub nose proved the rule which allots hooked noses to all her race, to the youngest officer, frail Count Wilhelm d'Eyrick.
Amanda was a good listener, a quality always appreciated by a man. When he had told his hopes and aspirations to her he began to take interest in her affairs. Her school, funny incidents occurring there, her basket work with the children all were talked about, until Amanda in dazed fashion brushed her hand across her eyes and wondered whether Isabel and her wiles was all an hallucination.
His initial grimness she could understand, and partially its breakdown into irritability. But she was puzzled by his laughter. For he laughed abruptly. "You know, Amanda, I came home in a mood of tremendous tragedy. And really, you are a Lark." And then overriding her altogether, he told her what he meant to do about their future and the future of their little son.
She added, "If we want to alter the world we ought to live in the world." Since last they had disputed the question she had thought out these new phrases. "Amanda," he said, "I think sometimes you haven't the remotest idea of what I am after. I don't believe you begin to suspect what I am up to." She put her elbows on her knees, dropped her chin between her hands and regarded him impudently.
And overawed and astonished with the boldness of his statement, he relapsed into silence. Amanda turned and looked at him clearly and unflinchingly, and cried: 'How dare yo' say that? 'Because you've repented, was the quiet reply. 'Haa do yo' know I've repented? 'Because repentance is to come home; and you've come home, have you not?
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