Charlotte Löwensköld (Musaicum Must Classics). Selma Lagerlöf

all his troubles were over. Never again could Charlotte Löwensköld tempt him to become a slave of Mammon. Hereafter, he would follow his own bent. The meek and lowly wife would let him walk in the footsteps of Jesus. He saw in his mind’s eye the little gray cottage, the blessed simple life, the perfect harmony between his teaching and his mode of living.

      He lay blinking up at the brushy greenery through which the sunbeams were trying to steal, and it seemed to him that, in the same way, a new, auspicious love was stealing into his harrowed, broken heart.