You have worn it before.

You shall wear it hereafter as your own." He took from his own neck a silver cross suspended by a slender silver chain, and the boy, with startled eyes, dropped to his knees and received the gift.
"It has brought good to all who possessed it, but for every good thing that it works for you it will work evil on some other.

Great is its blessing and great is its burden.

I, alas, know; but you also have heard of its history.

Do you accept it, Pierre ?" "Dear Father, with all my heart." The colorless hands touched the dark-red hair.
"God pardon the sins you shall commit." Pierre crushed the hand of Jean Paul Victor against his lips and rushed from the room, while the tall priest, staring down at the fingers which had been kissed, pronounced: "I have forged a thunderbolt, Father Gabrielle.