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218ARIADNE.them;but such shelter is denied for ever to thewomanwho has genius and fame;long after sheis dead she will lie out on common soil,nakedand unhouselled,for all the winds to blow onherand all the carrion birds to tear."His voice broke down for a moment, and hepaused and breathed heavily and with pain. Afaint dusky red of anger,yetmoreof shame,cameon the face of Hilarion.AVhat was noble in him was touched andaroused; what was vain and unworthy waswounded and stung.""Ido not follow you," he muttered. AAdiatwoulcl you have me do ? "" AVhat ? surely you know that when Parissalutes in her a great artist,it tells also the taleof her ruinby you "?Hilarion moved restlessly." Iknow! She was seenhere one winter;isitmy fault ? If the statue had been unlike me,Paris would not have remembered.""That is all you say?"" Itis all there is to say;if she would forget,the world would forget too."
ARIADNE. 219" Oh my God ! "Maryx groaned aloud. It seemed to him astenible as when of old some lovely human life,in its first youth, was laid low in sacrifice tosome god of stone, whose eyes of stone couldnot evenbehold in pity its death throes."But she will not forget. HaveItold you soin vam? " he cried aloud,and his voice rose and"rolled hke thunder through the silence. She— wiU never forget, God helpher! Vile womenand light ones forget; and the adulteress forgets,and the harlot; but she — can you lookat that marble and insult her, still? To heryou are lover and lord, and husband andking, and the only god that she knows, and theone shame of her life and its one glory. Haveyou nopity ? have you no human heart in yourbreast ? were you not born of a woman? Youfound her content and innocent, and in peace,and for your own pleasure and vanity drove allthat away, and all her dreams and all her girlhoodperished by — you and you only say sheshould forget! Can even men forget when theywill ? "
- Page 175 and 176: ARIADNE. 167never touched Maryx onc
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- 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
- Page 201 and 202: ARIADNE. 193the ways of the world a
- 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
- Page 217 and 218: ARIADNE. 209" Do they indeed caU he
- Page 219 and 220: CHAPTER XIAIt was the night of the
- Page 221 and 222: ARIADNE. 213selfish effort — alas
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- Page 229 and 230: ARIADNE. 221canIsay to move you? If
- Page 231 and 232: CHAPTER XVTo a blow there is but on
- Page 233 and 234: CHAPTER XVI.And the old mother was
- Page 235 and 236: ARIADNE. 227him gone out into nothi
- Page 237 and 238: ARIADNE. 229"Look you," she said to
- Page 239 and 240: ARIADNE. 231The people came there a
- Page 241 and 242: ARIADNE. 233and white, and the nigh
- Page 243 and 244: ARIADNE. 235fathers' arms were sile
- Page 245 and 246: ARIADNE. 237" So best," he had answ
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- Page 253 and 254: ARIADNE. 245when she had cried out
- Page 255 and 256: ARIADNE. 247striven;but evil had be
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218ARIADNE.them;but such shelter is denied for ever to thewomanwho has genius and fame;long after sheis dead she will lie out on common soil,nakedand unhouselled,for all the winds to blow onherand all the carrion birds to tear."His voice broke down for a moment, and hepaused and breathed heavily and with pain. Afaint dusky red of anger,yetmoreof shame,cameon the face of Hilarion.AVhat was noble in him was touched andaroused; what was vain and unworthy waswounded and stung.""Ido not follow you," he muttered. AAdiatwoulcl you have me do ? "" AVhat ? surely you know that when Parissalutes in her a great artist,it tells also the taleof her ruinby you "?Hilarion moved restlessly." Iknow! She was seenhere one winter;isitmy fault ? If the statue had been unlike me,Paris would not have remembered.""That is all you say?"" Itis all there is to say;if she would forget,the world would forget too."
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