Capitolo 89
Him the head raised him, strodes send, and it understood my hand. "Forgive me,
Cumberledge", he cried. "But a proscribed man and pursued! If you knew
that that a relief that is to me to go out on the water!"
"Forgetful entirely there?"
"Me the forgetful one--the red horror!"
"Did he/she want to say just now to drown him?"
"No! If I had intended him I would have done him.... Hubert, for mine
children's cause, I won't commit suicide!"
"Then the listening!" I cried. I told him in some words of his/her sister
scheme--the defense of Sebastian--the acceptability of the explanation--the
long and whole history. He looked fixed sulkily to me. Anchor was not Hugo!
"No, no", he said, shortly; and as him he/she spoke it was Him. "I have done him;
I have killed her; I won't owe my life to a falsehood."
"Not for the cause of his/her/their children?"
He threw down eagerly his/her hand. "I have the a best opportunity for the
children. Me he/she anchors I will save them.... Hubert, you are not afraid speak
to an assassin?"
"Dear Hugo--I know everybody; and to know all is to forgive everybody."
Him once more it understood my hand. "Know Everybody!" he cried, with a despairing
gesture. "Oh, no; anybody All he/she knows us but; not also his/her children.
But his/her children know a lot; They will forgive me to Them. Lina knows anything;
You will forgive me. You know a little; You forgive me. The world is able
never knows. It will mark my darlings as the children of an assassin."
"It was the action of one minute", I inserted. "And--although she is dead,
poor lady, and one has to speak none sick of her--we can gather at least
weakly, for the cause of Your children, as I lavish it was the provocation."
He looked fixed fixedly to me. Its voice was as I fall. "For his/her/their children
cause--yes", he responded, as in a dream. "Was everything for his/her/their children! ME
you/he/she has killed her--he/she murdered him--she has paid his/her criminal punishment; and, dead poor man
soul, I won't send forth word against her--the woman that I have murdered! But