Excerpt from God and the Man, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance And even if the worst came to the worst, she would fall upon her knees, tell the truth - part Of it, not all - no, no, not all and perhaps they might forgive her. Even if they killed her, what then She wished to die, though she lacked the courage to go ying up and falling at God's feet, a suicide. Even as she turned her face towards the farm, something stirred within her, like the quickening of another life within her own. A new horror passed through her. Then, as if she had been pursued, and ying in mortal terror, she ed away - not homeward, but across the darkened fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."