Everything looked different. Between myself and Kromer there now stood something like future freedom, something like hope.
I was lonely no longer! And then I realized for the first time how terribly lonely I had been for weeks and weeks.
And I immediately recollected what I had on several occasions turned over in my mind:
that a confession to my parents would afford me relief and yet would not quite liberate me.
Now I had almost confessed, to another, to a stranger, and as if a strong perfume had been wafted to me, sensed the presentiment of salvation!
Still my fear was far from being overcome, and I was still prepared for long and terrible mental wrestlings with my evil genius.
So it was all the more remarkable to me that everything passed off so very secretly and quietly.
Kromer’s whistle remained absent from our house for a day, two days, three days, a whole week.
I dared not believe my senses, and lay inwardly on the watch, to see whether he would not suddenly stand before me,
just at that moment when I should expect him no longer. But he was, and remained, away!
Distrustful of my new freedom, I still could not bring myself to believe in it whole-heartedly.
Until at last I met Frank Kromer. He was coming down the street, straight in my direction.
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