Doretta’s name.
And if the solid earth
Had quaked, he had not started more. O God,
Why did I not accept his instinct then!
He look’d at me, first pale, then flush’d, then firm;
And then with tremulous, painful breath, he said:—
“And this device from you? from you, so pure?
So free from guile? You should have spared me this.
That Jesuit has train’d you well! Ah, now,
I know how Adam grieved that Eve could fall;