Page:The King of the Dark Chamber.djvu/49

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
THE DARK CHAMBER
49

Sudarshana

But how did you get this devotion towards that same King?

Surangama

How can I tell? Perhaps I could rely and depend on him because he was so hard, so pitiless!

Sudarshana

When did this change of feeling take place?

Surangama

I could not tell you—I do not know that myself. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation on the dust of the earth. And then I saw . . . I saw that he was as matchless in beauty as in terror. Oh, I was saved, I was rescued.