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92 ARIADNE.At the unclosing of the door she started androse to her feet, and stood as a wounded deerstands at gaze.Her face was white, and the eyes weredilated,and the miseryof all her look was verygreat; but it had the calmness of reason anc.much of her oldresolve and strength.When she saw Maryx she knew him, and adeep flush mounted over all the pallor of herface,lookingas if itscorched her asit rose.He was a strong manand hadlearnedpatience,as he said, the bitter uncomplaining patience ofahopeless heart,hehad thought to be calm. Butat thesight of her the iron bonds of his strengthwere wrenchedapart;he shook fromhead tofoot;all the manhood inhim melted into a passionatepity,inwhich all other moreselfish passions werefor the moment drowned and dead.He crossedthe floor of the chamber with a cry, and fell onhis knees at her feet." Take me," he muttered, " take me for theonly thingIcan be — your avenger! Oh, mylove, my love! — your lover never, your masterevennever more,but your friend for ever, and
ARIADNE. 93your avenger. Vengeanceis all that is left tous,but as God livesIwill give youthat."And he kissed the dust on which she stood, ashe swore.She looked down on him, startled and moved,and with the blood coming and goinginher face,and her eyesresting on him,bewildered, and inthe old dulness of half-conscious wonder.Then as he vowed his vow an electric thrillseemed to run through her, she put out herhands and thrust them against the air, as thoughthrusting him away." Myfriend! And you woulcl hurt him!"She muttered the words faintly:she was likea creature notfairly awake after a ghastly dream.Maryx rose slowly to his feet:all the passionof his pity and his pardon frozen inhis breast." Your avenger— andIwill take his life foryours," he answered slowly, as he stood erectbefore her, and his face, burned darker by thedesert sun,had a terrible look uponit.All the yearning and anguish of months andyears had gone out, as in one tempest-drivenflood,in the oath with which he had knelt clown
- Page 50 and 51: 42 ARIADNE.at a line of the poem no
- Page 52: 44 ARIADNE.me, and stayed on in Par
- Page 55 and 56: ARIADNE. 47had been able to hear no
- Page 57 and 58: ARIADNE. 49aside in a little passag
- Page 59 and 60: ARIADNE. 51Myheart stood stUl. Ihad
- Page 61 and 62: ARIADNE. 53" Oh, my dear! Oh, my de
- Page 63 and 64: ARIADNE. 55He breathed quickly, the
- Page 65 and 66: ARIADNE. 57think he was cruel to he
- Page 67 and 68: ARIADNE. 59garden,Isaw a messenger
- Page 69 and 70: ARIADNE. 61'sorrowful,though knowin
- Page 71 and 72: ARIADNE. 63' Hush !it will be finis
- Page 73 and 74: ARIADNE. 65she is always asking;tha
- Page 75 and 76: ARIADNE. 67" Isuppose he never send
- Page 77 and 78: ARIADNE. 69agony,Irepented then hav
- Page 79 and 80: ARIADNE. 71thinking only of her;but
- Page 81 and 82: CHAPTER V— t—Next dayIgot such
- Page 83 and 84: ARIADNE. 75see them even. No doubt
- Page 85 and 86: ARIADNE. 77waters, and here and the
- Page 87 and 88: ARIADNE. 79Iwalked on and led her b
- Page 89 and 90: ARIADNE. 81shores, and on the domes
- Page 91 and 92: ARIADNE. 83motionless.Itouched and
- Page 93 and 94: ARIADNE. 85quiet and deserted; the
- Page 95 and 96: ARIADNE. 87went out and sat clown o
- Page 97 and 98: ARIADNE. 89"Yes,Iam here. Hush! spe
- Page 99: ARIADNE. 91to me, a Roman, to whom
- Page 103 and 104: ARIADNE. 95spent their lives like w
- Page 105 and 106: ARIADNE. 97him! Do you not know ? W
- Page 107 and 108: ARIADNE. 99some fair pluckt flower
- Page 109 and 110: ARIADNE. 101arise, and the Spada Vi
- Page 111 and 112: ARIADNE. 103racked with pain. No su
- Page 113 and 114: ARIADNE. 105now become equally abso
- Page 115 and 116: ARIADNE. 107and the naked there wer
- Page 117 and 118: ARIADNE. 109saw them. He had been,
- Page 119 and 120: ARIADNE. 111their goodnight's sleep
- Page 121 and 122: ARIADNE. 113her feel she wasliving
- Page 123 and 124: ARIADNE. 115Spring had come,Isay, a
- Page 125 and 126: ARIADNE. 117nightingales, and so pi
- Page 127 and 128: ARIADNE. 119foul patrician jade wru
- Page 129 and 130: ARIADNE. 121aburied village when th
- Page 131 and 132: ARIADNE. 123But for mypromise to he
- Page 133 and 134: ARIADNE. 125parts of Rome; a turn o
- Page 135 and 136: ARIADNE. 127seek to go away. He sto
- Page 137 and 138: ARIADNE. 129speak the truth. Yetit
- Page 139 and 140: ARIADNE. 131seems to me that you ar
- Page 141 and 142: ARIADNE. 133beauty against the gran
- Page 143 and 144: ARIADNE. 135Hilarion laughed ahttle
- Page 145 and 146: ARIADNE. 137that mirroredhim." That
- Page 147 and 148: ARIADNE. 139to be always seeing hea
- Page 149 and 150: ARIADNE. 141He laughed a httle, par
92 ARIADNE.At the unclosing of the door she started androse to her feet, and stood as a wounded deerstands at gaze.Her face was white, and the eyes weredilated,and the miseryof all her look was verygreat; but it had the calmness of reason anc.much of her oldresolve and strength.When she saw Maryx she knew him, and adeep flush mounted over all the pallor of herface,lookingas if itscorched her asit rose.He was a strong manand hadlearnedpatience,as he said, the bitter uncomplaining patience ofahopeless heart,hehad thought to be calm. Butat thesight of her the iron bonds of his strengthwere wrenchedapart;he shook fromhead tofoot;all the manhood inhim melted into a passionatepity,inwhich all other moreselfish passions werefor the moment drowned and dead.He crossedthe floor of the chamber with a cry, and fell onhis knees at her feet." Take me," he muttered, " take me for theonly thingIcan be — your avenger! Oh, mylove, my love! — your lover never, your masterevennever more,but your friend for ever, and
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