Chapter 5: IV

IV Beatrice Without having seen my friend again, I traveled at the end of the holidays to St. ———. Both my parents came with me, and handed me over with all possible care to the protection of a master of the school, in whose house I was to board. They would have been numb with horror, had they only known to what sort of fate they were leaving me. It still hung in the balance whether I should become with time a good son and a useful citizen, or whether my nature would break out in oth…