“‘He! Proud as these Nobles are, he is afraid to see me. Where
is the man who was here? Turn my face to him.’
“I did so, raising the boy’s head against my knee. But, invested
for the moment with extraordinary power, he raised himself
completely: obliging me to rise too, or I could not have still
supported him.
“‘Marquis,’ said the boy, turned to him with his eyes opened
wide, and his right hand raised, ‘in the days when all these things
are to be answered for, I summon you and yours, the last of your
bad race, to answer for them. I mark this cross of blood upon you,
as a sign that I do it. In the days when all these things are to be
answered for, I summon your brother, the worst of the bad race, to
answer for them separately. I mark this cross of blood upon him,
as a sign that I do it.’
“Twice, he put his hand to the wound in his breast, and with his
forefinger drew a cross in the air. He stood for an instant with the
finger yet raised, and, as it dropped, he dropped with it, and I laid
him down dead.
“When I returned to the bedside of the young woman, I found
her raving in precisely the same order and continuity. I knew that
this might last for many hours, and that it would probably end in
the silence of the grave.
“I repeated the medicines I had given her, and I sat at the side
of the bed until the night was far advanced. She never abated the
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