...what is not connected with her to me? And what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree -filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day- I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women -my own features- mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!
'It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer- but yours! How can I?'