raise his head again, or that her own mouth would open with a word; but Jesus was first to speak:

"Where are those accusers of yours...?!... Has no one con-demned you, woman...?"

"No one, my Lord..."

"Neither do I condemn you... Go, and

sin no more..."

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She cast her gaze about, searching for that noble face, and met nothing but these shadows settling upon the knolls and hills, and this winding path cleaving the grass, which fluttered with the dew of night and the moisture of morning...

She walked on; and soon a great breath of mist blew over her, and it seemed to her that she was passing out of herself and out of everything around her — as though she had sunk down at the feet of Jesus, as he reclined with his companions in the house of one of his friends, touching the hem of his garment, weeping and sobbing:

"O Jesus... O Master... have mercy on me, for I am a wretched sinner... I strayed from the path and my feet slipped; but I know my transgressions, and my burden is weary and heavy..."

"I came not to condemn, woman... but to call sinners to righteous-ness, and to give rest to the weary and the heavy-laden..."

"Your word is truth, Master... and your heart is kind, full of mercy, overflowing with forgive-

ness... But my soul is bowed and moans within me, as though I were a lump of sin and shame, too base for one like you to tread the threshold of my door or take shelter beneath the roof of my house... So let me touch your garment... and take shade in your footsteps..."

And she bent to the ground, kissing the place of his feet, weeping her abasement and her shame; and behold, the tears fell upon his feet and wetted them, and behold, she wiped them with her soft, long hair, and behold, the voice of Jesus surged above her head, calm and near:

"You have sinned much, Mary...

but you have loved much... Your sins are forgiven you!..."

-4-

And she lifted her eyes to see those lips that scattered gentle-ness and tenderness among their words — and behold, red shadows and phantoms spread along the fringes of the horizon, brushing the slumbering knolls and hills; and behold, the path rose from a hollow to a knoll, bending and turning among the shady trees...

She walked on... and soon a

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