Volume V Part 45 (2/2)
Pauline awoke, and her gaze, as bright as the rising sun in springtily
”What are you thinking of, dearest?”
”I a to convince myself that my happiness is not a dream, and if it be real I want it to last for ever I areat treasure, of which I ah I love you tenderly”
”Sweetheart, you are worthy of all my devotion and affection, if you have not ceased to respect me”
”Can you doubt it, Pauline?”
”No, dearest, I think you lovetrusted in you”
The sweet sacrifice was offered again, and Pauline rose and laughed to find that she was no longer asha from jest to earnest, she said,--
”If the loss of shae, hoas it that our first parents were not ashae?”
”I don't know, dearest, but tell me, did you ever ask your learned Italian master that same question?”
”Yes, I did”
”What did he say?”
”That their shame arose not fro the parts which had seduced them, they discovered, as it were, the sin they had committed Whatever may be said on the subject, I shall always think that Adam was much more to blame than Eve”
”How is that?”
”Because Adam had received the prohibition from God, while Eve had only received it froht that both of them received the prohibition directly from God”
”You have not read Genesis, then”
”You are laughing at me”
”Then you have read it carelessly, because it is distinctly stated that God made Eve after he had forbidden Adam to eat of the fruit”
”I wonder that point has not been remarked by our commentators; it seems a very important one to me”
”They are a pack of knaves, all sworn eneive proofs of quite another feeling only too often”
”We won't say anything more about it My teacher was an honest man”
”Was he a Jesuit?”
”Yes, but of the short robe”