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126ARIADNE.there was a sort of shame in his voice, and hiseyelids fell.Icursedhim.Heaven be merciful to me a sinner. Icalleddown onhis head every blight and vengeance ofheaven, allill and wretchedness and despair thathfe can everheap on those whom God and manforsake.Icursed himinhis lyingdown and hisuprising, inhismanhood and his age;Icursedall offspring thatmight be begottenby him, andall womenthat his love might light on;Icursedhim as in the Scriptures holy men curse thechildren of hell.Iwas' wrong, and such curses should blisterthe lips that utter them, being all weak and ateach other's mercy, and all adrifthi an inexplicablemystery of existence, as we are. ButIwas beside myself;Ithought only of her;Isaw only in him the cruel brutality of Love,which in his passion-flower hides an asj), andwith his kiss upon the hps gives death.He stood tranquil and unmoved under the furyof my words, and he showed no resentment; heshuddered ahttle once,that wasall. He didnot
ARIADNE. 127seek to go away. He stood quite quietly by thegranite steps of the Pantheon, with the columnsbehind him that have withstood the fires and thesiegesof two thousand years.When my voice had died, choked in mythroat by the force of my own misery and hate,he looked at me, with his clear cold eyes dim."Iam sorry that you should hate me," hesaid, under his breath, " but you are right— asyou see things. And why do you call on anygod ? Rome has outlived them all."The patiencein him, and the serenity, quelledthe tempests of my fury and my loathing, as answering,passion would have fed them. Istoodstock-still, and stared on him, in the moonlight.him." Can one never hart you!" I muttered to" Are you brute, or devil, or what, thatyou feel nothing, and only stand and smile — likethat ? "" DidIsmile ?" said Hilarion." Nay— youhurt me when you hate me. It is natural thatyoushould,and justenough; only, when you callon God ! Has everHe listened ? "
- 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
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- 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 and 100: ARIADNE. 91to me, a Roman, to whom
- Page 101 and 102: ARIADNE. 93your avenger. Vengeancei
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Page 151 and 152: ARIADNE. 143ThenIturned,and woulcl
- Page 153 and 154: ARIADNE. 145other gain from her a m
- Page 155 and 156: ARIADNE. 147dead things none are so
- Page 157 and 158: ARIADNE. 149sometimes, and knew tho
- Page 159 and 160: ARIADNE. 151her; she was vaguely op
- Page 161 and 162: ARIADNE. 153She stayed aU the summe
- Page 163 and 164: ARIADNE. 155of tlie Nonii, to the s
- Page 165 and 166: ARIADNE. 157Then hot tears filled h
- Page 167 and 168: ARIADNE. 159A Divine City indeed, h
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ARIADNE. 127seek to go away. He stood quite quietly by thegranite steps of the Pantheon, with the columnsbehind him that have withstood the fires and thesiegesof two thousand years.When my voice had died, choked in mythroat by the force of my own misery and hate,he looked at me, with his clear cold eyes dim."Iam sorry that you should hate me," hesaid, under his breath, " but you are right— asyou see things. And why do you call on anygod ? Rome has outlived them all."<strong>The</strong> patiencein him, and the serenity, quelledthe tempests of my fury and my loathing, as answering,passion would have fed them. Istoodstock-still, and stared on him, in the moonlight.him." Can one never hart you!" I muttered to" Are you brute, or devil, or what, thatyou feel nothing, and only stand and smile — likethat ? "" DidIsmile ?" said Hilarion." Nay— youhurt me when you hate me. It is natural thatyoushould,and justenough; only, when you callon God ! Has everHe listened ? "
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