Clementina, A. E. W. Mason [scary books to read .txt] 📗

had rescued his Princess and carried her through the snows was to the last too vivid in his thoughts. The thunderous roll [pg 367] of the carriage down the slopes, the sparks striking from the wheels, the sound of Clementina's voice singing softly in the darkness of the carriage, the walk under the stars to Ala, the coming of the dawn about that lonely hut, high-placed amongst the pines. These recollections bore him company through many a solitary evening. Somehow the world had gone awry. Clementina, withdrawn into her convent, was, after all, "wasted," as he had sworn she should not be. James was fallen upon a deeper melancholy, and diminished hopes. He himself was an exile alone in his white patio in Spain. In only one point was Maria Vittoria's prophecy at fault. She had spoken of two who were to find no mates, and one of the two was herself. She married five years later. THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Clementina, by A.E.W. Mason