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140 ARIADNE.that GodHimself could not quench the flame — ofit, even if He would. You never loved her!you!"It seemed to me the pitifulest thing that everthe ear of mancould hear;it stunned me.Across my brain ranalineIonce —had readinsome coarse cruel book:" Les femmes ne savent pas distinguerl'appetit de1'amour."AVas great Love nowhere in the world savehere and there in some woman's breakingheart ? — AVas Philotes the only thing menknew ?Icould speak no more to him; the unutterabledesolation of it struck me dumb. Ifelt asin that very spot somepagan Roman might havefelt, seeing his daughter passing by between theguards to perish for the love of Christ, he knowingall the while that her Christ was dead inGalilee, and could not aid her, and that theangelic hosts she waited for to break the wheeland quench the fires, had never had a shape orsubstance, saveinthe heated fancyof some desertsaint or hunted preacher.
ARIADNE. 141He laughed a httle, partly in cruelty and farmore in sadness, and looked me full in theface." If you were a youngmanyou wouldkillme."Ilooked him also full in the face." IfIhad not promised her nevertokill you,Iwoidd find the means to do it now — old asIam."" You would do quite right," he said dreamily," and, perhaps,you would do me a service: whocanteU? AAre — know so httle."Alas no: he said, truly; we know so httle,and it cripples our hand; the worst vengeancewe can think of is a swift, sure blow that dealsout death, and then, perhaps, aU the while weonly summon man's best friend.Istood before himbaffled,impotent,paralyzed.The merciless frankness of him froze the verycui-rent of my blood, andIsaw thathe spoke thetruth.He had not evenloved her once.He had better loved this blackbrowed illustriousjade here in Rome, who struck himinherfuries, and draggedhim in the dust in her softmoments.
- Page 97 and 98: ARIADNE. 89"Yes,Iam here. Hush! spe
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- 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
- 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,
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- 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 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: ARIADNE. 139to be always seeing hea
- 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
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- Page 165 and 166: ARIADNE. 157Then hot tears filled h
- Page 167 and 168: ARIADNE. 159A Divine City indeed, h
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- Page 175 and 176: ARIADNE. 167never touched Maryx onc
- Page 177 and 178: ARIADNE. 169coidd not end the phras
- Page 179 and 180: ARIADNE. 171" Iwoulcl notpromise,"
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ARIADNE. 141He laughed a httle, partly in cruelty and farmore in sadness, and looked me full in theface." If you were a youngmanyou wouldkillme."Ilooked him also full in the face." IfIhad not promised her nevertokill you,Iwoidd find the means to do it now — old asIam."" You would do quite right," he said dreamily," and, perhaps,you would do me a service: whocanteU? AAre — know so httle."Alas no: he said, truly; we know so httle,and it cripples our hand; the worst vengeancewe can think of is a swift, sure blow that dealsout death, and then, perhaps, aU the while weonly summon man's best friend.Istood before himbaffled,impotent,paralyzed.<strong>The</strong> merciless frankness of him froze the verycui-rent of my blood, andIsaw thathe spoke thetruth.He had not evenloved her once.He had better loved this blackbrowed illustriousjade here in Rome, who struck himinherfuries, and draggedhim in the dust in her softmoments.
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