Fyodor Dostoevsky CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

EPILOGUE CHAPTER 2 (OXFORD p.526-) How it happened he himself did not know, but suddenly he seemed to be seized and cast at her feet. He clasped her knees and wept. For a moment she was terribly frightend, and her face grew white. She sprang up and looked down at him, trembling. But at once, in that instant, she understood, and no longer doubted that he loved her, loved her for ever, and that now at last the moment had come... They tried to speak, but they could not. Tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin, but in their white sick faces there glowed the dawn of new future, a perfect resurrection into new life. Love had raised them from the dead, and the heart of each held endless springs of life for the heart of the other.