The first book I wrote
Book 44 Acts 001:001 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, 001:002 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 001:003 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom. 001:004 Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. 001:005 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now." 001:006 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?" 001:007 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. 001:008 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
She rose to her feet and walked up and down. Her eyes were blazing.
"He did not leave Paris!" she cried.
Mme. de Wimphen did not dare to interrupt the words that followed,
jerked-out sentences, measured by dreadful pauses in between. After
every break the deep notes of her voice sank lower and lower. There
was something awful about the last words.
"He has seen me, constantly, and I have not known it.--A look, taken
by stealth, every day, helps him to live.--Louisa, you do not know!
--He is dying.--He wants to say good-bye to me. He knows that my
husband has gone away for several days. He will be here in a moment.
Oh! I shall die: I am lost.--Listen, Louisa, stay with me!--_I am
afraid!_"
"But my husband knows that I have been dining with you; he is sure to
come for me," said Mme. de Wimphen.
"Well, then, before you go I will send _him_ away. I will play the
executioner for us both. Oh me! he will think that I do not love him
any more--And that letter of his! Dear, I can see those words in
letters of fire."
A carriage rolled in under the archway.
Book 44 Acts 001:001 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, 001:002 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 001:003 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom. 001:004 Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. 001:005 For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now." 001:006 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?" 001:007 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. 001:008 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."