'Vengeance is mine,' he saith; '_I_ will repay.' He giveth no man charge
to bring his wrath upon us. He hath invested no human power with a
supremacy beyond that which abideth in every loving and faithful soul,
as to the things of the conscience. Thou, with thy love and faith and
pain, art at this moment very near to Him; be comforted, and cease not
to believe that He counteth all thy tears, and that thy prayers are dear
to Him."
"My Father," she confessed sadly, "it is a part of the shadow that it
hides my faith; night and day, with fast and penance, have I not ceased
to pray for Venice--and the answer hath been denied me. I could seek for
death, but for the horror that cometh after, at the Madonna dell'
Orto--the Tintoret--and that which the Michelangelo hath seen in
vision--Oh, my God!"
"My child, it is not God who faileth thee in answer to thy prayer; and
love and faith are yet strong and beautiful within thy soul; only a
human weakness is upon thee which cloudeth thy human reason, and for
this thy soul is dark.
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