beginning
of their
happiness
at some
moments
they were
both ready
to look on
those
seven
years as
though
they were
seven
days. He
did not
know that
the new
life would
not be
given him
for
nothing,
that he
would have
to pay
dearly for
it, that
it would
cost him
great
striving,
great
suffering.
But that
is the
beginning
of a new
story—the
story of
the
gradual
renewal of
a man, the
story of
his
gradual
regeneration,
of his
passing
