16/21 I could tell tales not fit for your ears. And for him you will die in this horrible place unless you consent. For him you have thrown away everything,--name, fame, and happiness,--unless you will take all these from me. Oh, I know you will cry out that it is untrue; but my eyes are good, though you call me old! For this treacherous boy, with his curly hair, you have lost the only thing that makes woman human,--your reputation!" And Benoni laughed that horrid laugh of his, till the court rang again, as though there were devils in every corner, and beneath every eave and everywhere. People whose anger is silent are generally either incapable of honest wrath or cowards. |