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146 ARIADNE.Not because he is vUe; no. Hilarion saidjustly; very few men are that ;but becausehe islike a child, and his plaything was beautifulwhilst yetit was arefused secret, a treasurewithheld,a toy untried,but being once attained andowned, the plaything hes forgotten in a corner,whilst theplayer runs forthin the sun.Calderonls Dorothea was not hatecibecause shehad given her trust, but she wasforsaken becauseshe had done so, and then hated because thememory of wrong done to her stung a ficklefierce heart to remorse." AVho has done the wrong, never pardons: "in love,beyondall else,is this true.Hilarion went back to the apes in his upastree, because they never made him wish himselfother than he was; they never recalled tohim.".11he might have been: innocently she had cloneboth. So he had left her.Iknew, asIsay, that he woulcl go out ofRome; and on the morrowIlearned that he haddone so.Iwas thankful.AVonien hope that the deadlove may revive; but men knowthat of all
ARIADNE. 147dead things none are so past recall as a deadpassion.The courtezan may scourge it with a whip ofnettles back into hfe;but the innocent womanmay wet it for ever with her tears, she will findno resurrection.Iwas thankful, for it was best so; yet ifIcould have hated him more thanIdid it wouldhave been for his obedience to me.To be near her, yet not even look uponherface !—Iforgot that hardly could he care to lookonit much more than amurderer cares to lookon the thing he has stifled and thrust away into"the earth. AVhy could he not have left her inpeace ? " Isaid,again and again. No doubt heoften asked himself so; for men are not base;they are children.Maryx all this whUeInever saw.Ibelievedthat although he had refused to give hispromise,he woulcl not harm her lover for her sake;butIknew nothing:Ionly knew thatHilarion passedout of Rome, as he had entered it,insafety.The nightingales sang through all the longlovely springtide nights under the myrtles ontheL 2
- 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 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
- Page 151 and 152: ARIADNE. 143ThenIturned,and woulcl
- Page 153: ARIADNE. 145other gain from her a m
- 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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- 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,"
- Page 181 and 182: ARIADNE. 173that are vile canbe fai
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- Page 185 and 186: ARIADNE. 177Hilarion: the man made
- Page 187 and 188: ARIADNE. 179" Is that aU that you k
- Page 189 and 190: ARIADNE. 181and the apes away. IfIc
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- Page 197 and 198: ARIADNE. 189you ? Imean simply and
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146 ARIADNE.Not because he is vUe; no. Hilarion saidjustly; very few men are that ;but becausehe islike a child, and his plaything was beautifulwhilst yetit was arefused secret, a treasurewithheld,a toy untried,but being once attained andowned, the plaything hes forgotten in a corner,whilst theplayer runs forthin the sun.Calderonls Dorothea was not hatecibecause shehad given her trust, but she wasforsaken becauseshe had done so, and then hated because thememory of wrong done to her stung a ficklefierce heart to remorse." AVho has done the wrong, never pardons: "in love,beyondall else,is this true.Hilarion went back to the apes in his upastree, because they never made him wish himselfother than he was; they never recalled tohim.".11he might have been: innocently she had cloneboth. So he had left her.Iknew, asIsay, that he woulcl go out ofRome; and on the morrowIlearned that he haddone so.Iwas thankful.AVonien hope that the deadlove may revive; but men knowthat of all
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