Inhaltsangabe
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. 1869. Excerpt: ... lowed your advice, my good Carlino--I have prayed. I have tried hard many a time without result, but I have succeeded at last. Prayer has cleared my disordered intellect, has softened my proud, hard heart. I never knew before what a blessing, what a power resides in piayer. I understand now what impious, what criminal things I have asked of you. I see and feel how right you were in refusing to listen to me. You have been my guardian angel, Carlino. It is useless to try and stop me; I will speak out what I have at heart to say. If I die like a man and a Christian, as I am resolved to do, I shall owe it to you. Henceforward you shall guide me; I resign my will into your hands. You know, far better than I do, what is good for me and what is not. From this moment you are no longer to ask me if I will do this or that, but simply to say, 'Do this or that'--do you promise?" "Why, if I do, Monsieur," replied Carlino, smiling through his tears, "we shall, I am sure, make a great mess of it; for if ever there was a man born to obey and not to command, that man is Monsieur's humble servant." "Well," counterargued the Baron, with a smile in return, "if you are born to obey, then I command you to tell me always what I am to do, and you cannot go against my command." Carlino, etc. 9 "I must do my best," said Carlino. "Suppose Monsieur was to take his breakfast, and then get upl" Both these operations being concluded, so long and laborious that of the dressing, that it had to be followed by an hour of complete repose, Carlino further proposed a visit to the cook, "a member of Monsieur's establishment, whom Monsieur had never taken any notice of," and on the Baron agreeing both to the accusation and to the proposal, he was wheeled into the kitchen, where he had a good lo...
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