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172 ARIADNE.Ithought of the day when he had comepast my board with vigorous, elastic steps,andhis bold, brilliant eyes, bright as an eagle's;the day when he had taken up the AA'inglessLove.Alas, what love that is love indeed bearswings? Love that is loveis fettered where itisborn, and stirs not, even under any rain ofblows." Maryx is ill,"Isaid toher on the morrow." I amsorry," she said,and looked pained." AVill you not see him? — say some gentleword ? "" Icannot, to be faithful."" Faithful to the faithless! That is asked of" inone.Her face gathered uponit that look of resolutionand of force which made its dehcate linessevere, as the features of the Athene to whomher youth had been dedicated. The flush of adeep emotion, that in another would have beenshame, but inher was rather anger than shame,burned onher face." To be faithful is no virtue;but only women
ARIADNE. 173that are vile canbe faithless. Itis nothing whatone is asked;it is what one is, what one wills,thatmatters."Iremember how in the early days she hadscorned Ariadne, saying that Ariadne shouldhave died ere Dionysos scaled the rock.— Fidelity in her was purification nay, wasinnocence that needed no purification; and notalone innocence,but supreme duty and joy thatdefied aU cruelty of man to bruise it much, orutterly to destroy it.She knew not enough of human nature andhuman ways and the evU thereof, to understandall that faithless womenwere;but the instinctin her recoUed from them not less with scomthan horror. Faith to Hilarion was inher naturewhat faith in heaven was to the martyrs, whosebones lie here in the eternal night of subterraneanRome. It was a religion, an instinct,and a paradise— a paradise whence not even thesilence and the abandonment of the god by whomshe was forsaken could drive her out wholly intodarkness.For in a great love there is a seU-sustaining
- 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 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
- Page 169 and 170: ARIADNE. 161open air of the gardens
- Page 171 and 172: CHAPTER XThat verynightImade a scul
- Page 173 and 174: ARIADNE. 165silent andlookinginto v
- Page 175 and 176: ARIADNE. 167never touched Maryx onc
- Page 177 and 178: ARIADNE. 169coidd not end the phras
- Page 179: ARIADNE. 171" Iwoulcl notpromise,"
- Page 183 and 184: CHAPTER XLThe months went on, and s
- 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
- Page 191 and 192: ARIADNE. 183would change places wit
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- Page 197 and 198: ARIADNE. 189you ? Imean simply and
- Page 199 and 200: ARIADNE. 191AlmostIlonged to teU he
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- Page 203 and 204: ARIADNE. 195" Take my life away wit
- Page 205 and 206: ARIADNE. 197talked of; it took a ti
- Page 207 and 208: ARIADNE. 199pale Carrara marble, an
- Page 209 and 210: ARIADNE. 201bit his tired senses in
- Page 211 and 212: ARIADNE. 203pure a breath of heaven
- Page 213 and 214: ARIADNE. 205before the world, and h
- Page 215 and 216: ARIADNE. 207— for her sake. He kn
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- Page 227 and 228: ARIADNE. 219" Oh my God ! "Maryx gr
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172 ARIADNE.Ithought of the day when he had comepast my board with vigorous, elastic steps,andhis bold, brilliant eyes, bright as an eagle's;the day when he had taken up the AA'inglessLove.Alas, what love that is love indeed bearswings? Love that is loveis fettered where itisborn, and stirs not, even under any rain ofblows." Maryx is ill,"Isaid toher on the morrow." I amsorry," she said,and looked pained." AVill you not see him? — say some gentleword ? "" Icannot, to be faithful."" Faithful to the faithless! That is asked of" inone.Her face gathered uponit that look of resolutionand of force which made its dehcate linessevere, as the features of the Athene to whomher youth had been dedicated. <strong>The</strong> flush of adeep emotion, that in another would have beenshame, but inher was rather anger than shame,burned onher face." To be faithful is no virtue;but only women
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