Volume I Part 26 (2/2)
”Yes, darling, Love has made but one of our two souls I adore you, and if I have the courage to pass soyou it is in order to be rewarded by the freedole day like this”
”I did not think it possible But you have e, dearest”
”A norant child, and you are the first woman who has initiated me into the mysteries of love Your departure will kill me, for I could not find another woman like you in all Italy”
”What! am I your first love? Alas! you will never be cured of it Oh!
why am I not entirely your own? You are also the first true love of reat will be the happiness of my successor! I should not be jealous of her, but what suffering would be ht that her heart was not like an to give way to her own, and, seating ourselves on the grass, our lips drank our tears amidst the sweetest kisses Hoeet is the nectar of the tears shed by love, when that nectar is relished amidst the raptures of mutual ardour! I have often tasted thely that the ancient physicians were right, and that thethe disorder in which we both were, I told her that we ht be surprised
”Do not fear, uardianshi+p of our good angels”
We were resting and reviving our strength by gazing into one another's eyes, when suddenly Lucrezia, casting a glance to the right, exclaimed,
”Look there! idol ofover us! Ah! how he stares at us! He seeive us confidence Look at that little deuardian spirit or ht she was delirious
”What are you saying, dearest? I do not understand you What am I to admire?”
”Do you not see that beautiful serpent with the blazing skin, which lifts its head and seems to worshi+p us?”
I looked in the direction she indicated, and saw a serpent with changeable colours about three feet in length, which did see at us I was not particularly pleased at the sight, but I could not show eous than she was
”What!” said I, ”are you not afraid?”
”I tell you, again, that the sight is delightful tobut the shape, or rather the appearance, of a serpent”
”And if the spirit carass and hissed at you?”
”I would hold you tighter against my bosom, and set him at defiance
In your ar away Quick, quick! He is warning us of the approach of some profane person, and tells us to seek soo”
We rose and slowly advanced towards Donna Cecilia and the advocate, ere just e the, just as if to meet one another was a very natural occurrence, I enquired of Donna Cecilia whether her daughter had any fear of serpents
”In spite of all her strength of mind,” she answered, ”she is dreadfully afraid of thunder, and she will screaht of the shtened, for they are not venomous”
I was speechless with astonishment, for I discovered that I had just witnessed a wonderful love miracle At that ain parted co woman, ould you have done if, instead of your pretty serpent, you had seen your husband and yourDo you not know that, inbut love? Do you doubt having possessedthus, was not co fictitious sentiments; her looks, the sound of her voice, were truth itself!
”Are you certain,” I enquired, ”that we are not suspected?”