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CHAPTER IV THE POOR PEOPLE OF SAREK
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Honorine's wound was deep but did not seem likely to prove fatal. When Véronique had dressed it and moved Marie Le Goff's body to the room filled with books and furnished like a study in which her father was lying, she closed M. d'Hergemont's eyes, covered him with a sheet and knelt down to pray. But the words of prayer would not come to her lips and her mind was incapable1 of dwelling2 on a single thought. She felt stunned3 by the repeated blows of misfortune. She sat down in a chair, holding her head in her hands. Thus she remained for nearly an hour, while Honorine slept a feverish4 sleep.
With all her strength she rejected her son's image, even as she had always rejected Vorski's. But the two images became mingled5 together, whirling around her and dancing before her eyes like those lights which, when we close our eyelids6 tightly, pass and pass again and multiply and blend into one. And it was always one and the same face, cruel, sardonic7, hideously8 grinning.
She did not suffer, as a mother suffers when mourning the loss of a son. Her son had been dead these fourteen years; and the one who had come to life again, the one for whom all the wells of her maternal10 affection were ready to gush11 forth12, had suddenly become a stranger and even worse: Vorski's son! How indeed could she have suffered?
But ah, what a wound
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