Американская трагедия

Chapter 28

           ButwerethosethingsascontendedbyMasontrueorfalse?

           Clyde,nowasalwaysoverawedandthrownbackonhimselfbythatuncompromisingandshamelesshonestywhichhehadneverbeenablequitetocomprehendinher,announced,withallthefirmnessthathecouldmuster—yetwithasecretquaveringchillinhisheart—thathehadsworntothetruth.Hehadnotdonethosethingswithwhichhehadbeencharged.Hehadnot.But,alas,asshenowsaidtoherself,onobservinghim,whatwasthatabouthiseyes—afaintflickerperhaps.Hewasnotsosure—asself-convincedanddefiniteasshehadhoped—asshehadprayedhewouldbe.No,no,therewassomethinginhismanner,hiswords,ashespoke—afaintrecessiveintonation,asenseofsomethingtroubled,dubious,perhaps,whichquitefrozehernow.

           Hewasnotpositiveenough.Andsohemighthaveplotted,inpartatleast,asshehadfearedatfirst,whenshehadfirstheardofthis—mighthaveevenstruckheronthatlone,secretlake!—whocouldtell?(thesearing,destroyingpowerofsuchathoughtasthat).Andthatinthefaceofallhistestimonytothecontrary.

           But"Jehovah,jirah,Thouwiltnotrequireofamother,inherownandherson’sdarkesthour,thatshedoubthim—makesurehisdeaththroughherownlackoffaith?Oh,no—Thouwiltnot.OLambofGod,Thouwiltnot!"Sheturned;shebruisedunderherheelthescalyheadofthisdarksuspicion—asterrifyingtoherashisguiltwastohim.

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