And the stars shone forth upon him such a lively sense of the
immeasurable vastness of Divine Truth as compared with his own and his
friends' religious conceptions, and at the same time such a firm faith
that he was travelling towards that vastness, that he suddenly raised
his head from the pillow exclaiming:
"Ah!"
The sister was dozing, not so the Professor.
"What is it?" said he. "Do you see something?"
Benedetto did not reply immediately. The Professor raised the lamp, and
bent over him. Then Benedetto turned his face and looked at Mayda with
an expression of intense desire, and after gazing at him a long time,
sighed:
"Ah, Professor! Indeed you must come where I am going!"
"But do you know where you are going?" Mayda said.
"I know," Benedetto replied, "that I am parting with all that is
corruptible, all that is burdensome."
He then inquired if some one had gone to the parish church. Not yet:
only a quarter of an hour had passed. He apologised. It had seemed a
century to him. He entreated the Professor to retire, to take some rest,
and once more he fell to watching the celestial lights.
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