[The Long Night by Stanley Weyman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Long Night CHAPTER XVII 16/29
"You do not deceive me," he muttered.
For though he was anxious to believe, as yet he could not.
He could not; he had seen the other's face.
"It is the _remedium_ she has taken! I feel it." "And given to her mother ?" Blondel inclined his head. The scholar laughed contemptuously.
"Then is the test easy," he said. "If it be the _remedium_ you will find her mother, who has not left her bed for three years, grown strong and well and vigorous, and like to him who lifted up his bed and walked.
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