| 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 |
| 1 | 236 | 472 | 708 | 944 |
|
"Adoption! It is settled; Homo is willing."
He drew himself up.
"
I should like to know who is responsible for that woman's death? Is it
man? or...."
He raised his eyes, but looked beyond the ceiling, and his lips
murmured,--
"Is it Thou?"
Then his brow dropped, as if under a burden, and he continued,--
"
The night took the trouble to kill the woman."
Raising his eyes, they met those of the boy, just awakened, who was
listening. Ursus addressed him abruptly,--
"
What are you laughing about?"
The boy answered,--
"I am not laughing."
Ursus felt a kind of shock, looked at him fixedly for a few minutes, and
said,--
270
Page
Quick Jump
|