Before we became
such intimate friends there was something within that told us that we
were destined to mingle our lives. Let that part of us which is still
joined in God's sight never know that we have parted upon earth; let not
the paltry chance of a moment undo the union of our eternal happiness!"
He held the woman's hand; she arose, tears streaming from her eyes, and,
stepping up to the mirror with a strange smile on her face, she cut from
her head a long tress of hair; then she looked at herself, thus
disfigured and deprived of a part of her beautiful crown, and gave it to
her lover.
The clock struck again; it was time to go; when they passed out they
seemed as joyful as when they entered.
"What a glorious sun," said the young man.
"And a beautiful day," said Brigitte, "the memory of which shall never
fade."
They hastened away and disappeared in the crowd. A moment later a
carriage passed over a little hill beyond Fontainebleau. The young man
was the only occupant; he looked for the last time upon his native town
as it disappeared in the distance and thanked God that, of the three
beings who had suffered through his fault, there remained but one of them
still unhappy.
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