At last I heard him speak.
"I have done with you," he cried. "I do not believe in you. I have
no more need of you. I renounce you. I will live without you. Away
forever out of my life!"
At this a look of ineffable sorrow and pity came upon the great
companion's face.
"You are free," he answered. "I have only besought you, never
constrained you. Since you will have it so, I must leave you, now,
to yourself."
He rose into the air, still looking downward with wise eyes full
of grief and warning, until he vanished in silence beyond the thin
clouds.
The other did not look up, but lifting his head with a defiant
laugh, shook his shoulders as if they were free of a burden. He
strode swiftly around the corner of the cathedral and disappeared
among the deep shadows.
A sense of intolerable calamity fell upon me. I said to myself:
"That was Man! And the other was God! And they have parted!"
Then the multitude of bells hidden in the lace-work of the high
tower began to sound. It was not the aerial fluttering music of
the carillon that I remembered hearing long ago from the belfries
of the Low Countries.
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