Paul, still robed in his alb, was down there at one bound and threw himself on his knees that he might look more closely into his mother's face as she lay stretched on the ground, with her head in a woman's lap and hemmed in by the pressing crowd.
The face was still and rigid, the eyes half-closed, the teeth clenched in the effort not to cry aloud.
And he knew instantly that she had died of the shock of that same grief, that same terror which he had been enabled to overcome.
And he, too, clenched his teeth that he might not cry aloud when he raised his head; and across the confused mass of the people surging round, his eyes met the eyes of Agnes fixed upon him.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For those words, the variant more frequently used was retained.
Other printing errors, which were not detected during the revision of the printing process of the original book, have been corrected.
A Table of Content was added before the Translator's Note.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Woman and the Priest, by Grazia Deledda