This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...all his happiness? Pintea, a fellow of Lica's, who had come out of the corners of the jails only to be on the trail of his former associates, a man who thought of every one as suspicious because that was his business, and for such a man he had estranged himself from Anna, from his legal wife! But he did not reproach ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...all his happiness? Pintea, a fellow of Lica's, who had come out of the corners of the jails only to be on the trail of his former associates, a man who thought of every one as suspicious because that was his business, and for such a man he had estranged himself from Anna, from his legal wife! But he did not reproach himself for this, for another thought made him forget all that troubled him and began to fill his heart with a dreary consolation: Only for love of her had he ventured in all this that threatened to ruin him now, only to see her happy and satisfied, only to save her the cares of the future. Now he thought only of the happiness of his home; Pintea and the justice, the robbery and his worry about public gossip, and his arrest had vanished entirely from his memory. Yes, she had been right, the good old woman, when she spoke of the joy and quiet of one's own home, only in this could he find courage and strength for a new life, when the other world had forsaken him.... Ghitza whipped the horses to a quicker pace, the road seemed to be extremely long to-day.... He felt that Anna must be waiting for him impatiently, he saw the sweeping haste with which she would run to the country road to see if he was not coming yet, it was as if an eternity divided him from her, he saw the moment when he would notice her run towards him and when he would whisper into her ears only a few words, only a very few words: "Anna, don't think of it, don't torment yourself with questions when you see that I am silent and uncommunicative; for all I do is only for your sake, who are the light and happiness of my life; don't be angry at me because I don't want to tell what makes me suffer, for only I, I alone want to bear the cares! Anna, don't be sad, for it gives me a sti...
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