own happiness.

The blind girl — But I, blind as I am, know the happiness of hearing! My lord! Do you feel how happy I am? Look at me! Does not false speech show upon the face? I can feel lying speech in the voice! Do you remember the day my aunt — so she used to call the pastor's wife — scolded you because you are no good at doing her any service? I asked you then whether you were crying, and you denied it, and I cried out: my lord pastor, you are lying! I felt from the ring of your voice that you were not telling the truth! Do not try to hide anything from me — first because I am blind, and second because I would not believe you. Tell me, my lord, are you not unhappy?

— No, I am not unhappy.

— But you cry sometimes!

— I have cried at times.

— Have you cried since that day?

— No. I have not cried.

— And have you not felt, since then, the need to cry?

— No, Gertrude.

— And since that lie to me, have you felt the need to lie?

— No, my dear child.

— Will you promise me never again to deceive me, and to tell the truth?

— I promise.

— Then tell me at once: am I beautiful?

— And what does it matter to you to know?

— It weighs on my mind! I want to know that I am not a false note

in the symphony of the universe!

— My child, a clergyman does not concern himself with the beauty of faces.

— Why?

— Because the beauty of souls is enough for him!

— You would rather I believed myself ugly.

Gertrude! You know that you are beautiful!!

When they reached the house his wife gave him to understand that

she did not approve of his going to concerts, and that he did for Gertrude what he did not do for his own children — and it pained him that she said this for the blind girl to hear. When the two of them were alone in the room he drew near her, raised her small hand to his face, and said:

— Do you see? I did not

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