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will exist as long as there is a Law. We may smile at the
theological conception of it, but vengeance or, rather,
retribution, remains a fact, and the aggressor never
escapes.”
She had grown grave, but pretended not to understand
me.
“Only the wicked revenge themselves,” she said at last.
“Agreed; but with so many wicked people in the world,
who can be sure that he is dealing with a man brave
enough not to retaliate?”
“Fate guides our actions.”
“True; but Fate also guides the dagger of the
avenger.”
...At the end of the month she had a miscarriage,
sufficient proof, I thought, of her infidelity. And from
that moment suspicion grew slowly into certainty and
filled my heart with bitterness.
She did her utmost to persuade me that I was “mad,”
that my suspicions were but the figments of an overworked
brain. And once again she forgave me. To mark our
reconciliation I wrote a play containing a splendid part
for her, a part which it was impossible to ruin. On the
seventeenth of August I handed her the play together
with the deed of gift, which conferred on her all the
rights. She could do with it what she liked as long as
she herself played the part which I had written for her.
It was the result of two months’ strenuous work. She
accepted it without a word of thanks, a sacrifice due to
Her Majesty, the second-rate actress.
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