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Chapter XI
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Next day, Rose was with me early in the morning:
"I could not sleep," she said. "I wanted to speak to you without tears or blushes. If I have done wrong, I have atoned1 for it; and it is done with. All that remained of it was a sad memory; and, now that I have considered it with you, even that is gone."
I look at her. Her appearance pleases me. Her step is firm, her cheeks are pale, her eyes burning; she is living more ardently2 than usual. She continues, with animation3:
"You said to me once that people who believe in another life seem to sweep their sins and their remorse4 up to the doors of eternity5. For us, you said, who have not that illusion, everything is different: we do not put off paying the bill for our sins. We can recognise their consequences; and that
is our expiation6." And you added, proudly, "It is cowardly to look to another for it, even if that other were God!"
We are walking in the orchard7. The long grass is bending under the weight of the dew, which has decked it with a thousand glittering jewels. As we pass by a tree laden8 with apples, Rose pulls a branch to her and, without plucking the fruit, bites into it. I watch the lips part and the white teeth meet and disappear in the juicy pulp9. For a second, the soft red mouth rounds over the fruit, which seems to match its beauty and to be questioning Rose about her pitiful love-affairs.
"Then, Rose dear, you were not really happy for a moment with your lover?"
"No."
"But he was young, I suppose, and more or less good-looking?"
She thinks for a moment and then bends her head.
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eternity
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expiation
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accomplishment
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delightful
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rivet
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lottery
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aberration
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degradation
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infringe
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injustice
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innocence
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