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Homo Sum, and Gred of Nuremberg; A Romance of the 15th Century
Homo Sum and Gred of Nuremberg A Romance of the 15th Century Author:Georg Ebers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: J. W. Lovell co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ca... more »n select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Who can point out the road that another will take, and say today, ' To-morrow I shall find him thus and not otherwise?' We fools flee into the desert in order to forget the world, and the world pursues us and clings to our skirts. Where are the shears that are keen enough to cut the shadow from beneath our feet? What is the prayer that can effectually release us -- born of the flesh -- from the burden of the flesh? My Redeemer, Thou Only One, who knowest it, teach it to me, the basest of the base." CHAPTER X. Within a few minutes after Hermas had flung himself out of the window into the roadway, Phcebicius walked into his sleeping-room. Sirona had had time to throw herself on to her couch; she was terribly frightened, and had turned her face to the wall. Did he actually know that some one had been with her? And who could have betrayed her and have called him home? Or could he have come home by accident sooner than usual? It was dark in the room, and he could not see her face, and yet she kept her eyes shut as if asleep, for every fraction of a minute in which, she could still escape seeing him in his fury seemed a reprieve; and yet her heart beat so violently that it seemed to her that he must hear it, when he approached the bed with a soft step that was peculiar to him. She heard him- walk up and down, and at last go into the kitchen that adjoined the sleeping-room. In a few moments she perceived, through her half-closed eyes, that he had brought m a light; he had lighted a lamp at the hearth, and now searched both the rooms. As yet he had not spoken to her nor...« less