Love's Pilgrimage A Novel - 1-2 Author:Upton Sinclair Volume: 1-2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART II Loves Captivity Book VIII THE CAPTIVE BOUND They tat with the twilight shadows about them. Memories too poignant assailed them, and her hand trembled as it lay upon his arm. "How strange it was!" she whispered. "Have we kept the faith?" "Who knows?" he answered; and in a low voice he read -- "And long the way appears, which stem'd so short To the less practised eye of sanguine youth; And high the mountain-tops, in cloudy air, The mountain-tops where is the throne of Truth, Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and bare!" § 1. This was a golden hour in Thyrsis' life. The gates of wonder were flung open, and all things were touched with a new and mystic glow. He scarcely realized it at the time; for once he was too much moved to think about his own emotions, the artist was altogether lost in the man. Even the room in which he lodged was relieved of its sordidness; it was a thing that men had made, and so a part of the mystery of becoming. He yearned for some one to whom he could impart his great emotion; but because of the loneliness of his life he could find no one but the keeper of his lodging-house. Even she became a human thing to him, because of her interest in the great tidings. If all the world loved a lover, it loved yet more one through whom the supreme purpose of love had been accomplished. Thyrsis went each day to the hospital, to watch the new miracle unfolding itself; to see the Child asserting ...« less