gs like this.
He strove for composure.

"If only I had left him there--oh, if only I had left him
there!"

The man entered into his wife's feelings of torture and
self-reproach, but he pointed to the dead boy, whose face above the
white shirt looked peculiarly refined, almost perfect, young and smooth
and quite peaceful, and then drew her more closely towards him with the
other hand. "Don't cry. You were the one to make a man of him--don't
forget that."

"Do you think so?--Oh Paul!"--she bowed the face that was covered
with tears in deep pain--"I did not make him any happier by it."

She had to weep, weep unceasingly in deep acknowledgment of worldly
error. She grasped her husband's hands tremulously and drew him down
with her at the side of the bed.

The hands of husband and wife were clasped together over the son
they had lost. They whispered, deeply repentant and as though it came
from one mouth:

"_Forgive us our trespasses._"

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