"Forgive!
Forgive!"
Her happy tears bedewed his face.
"The punishment has been severe," observed the sculptor. "Even
justice might now forgive- how much more a woman's tenderness!
Roderick Elliston, whether the serpent was a physical reptile, or
whether the morbidness of your nature suggested that symbol to your
fancy, the moral of the story is not the less true and strong. A
tremendous Egotism- manifesting itself, in your case, in the form of
jealousy- is as fearful a fiend as ever stole into the human heart.
Can a breast, where it has dwelt so long, be purified?"
"Oh, yes!" said Rosina, with a heavenly smile. "The serpent was but
a dark fantasy, and what it typified was as shadowy as itself. The
past, dismal as it seems, shall fling no gloom upon the future. To
give it its due importance, we must think of it but as an anecdote
in our Eternity!"
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