Jon Hagadorn
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I love you as my life, for you are the best, the noblest of created beings.'
LET IT BE THEN, AS YOU WISH, SWEET ANGEL.
GOD HAS SUSTAINED ME IN MY STRUGGLE WITH MY ENEMIES, AND HAS GIVEN ME THIS REWARD.
HE WILL NOT LET ME END MY TRIUMPH IN SUFFERING.
I WISH TO PUNISH MYSELF, BUT HE HAS PARDONED ME.
LOVE ME THEN, HAYIDI.
WHO KNOWS, PERHAPS YOUR LOVE WILL MAKE ME FORGET ALL THAT I DO NOT WISH TO REMEMBER.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MY LORD?
I mean that one word from you has enlightened me more than twenty years of slow experience.
I have but you in the world, Hayidi.
Through you I again take hold on life.
Through you I shall suffer.
Through you rejoice."
"'Do you hear him, Valentine?'
exclaimed Hayidi.
"'He says that through me he will suffer.'
through me, through me, who would yield my life for his.
The Count withdrew for a moment.
Have I discovered the truth?
he said.