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32ARIADNE.their cuirasses of steel, and going out along thelong stone passages into the daylight like adrunken man.Had itbeen but a little earlier, only a littleearlier!Had it come only just ere the earth hadhad time to bear and blossom and be reapedforharvests these three short summers!What was the shield of Athene beside what theshield of gold would have been ?What power had love or the arts to shelter,compared with what the mere force of wealthwould havehad ?Icursed the dead manin his graveBrutalitmight be, butIwras so: — brutal asonemay be whoin savage wars sees the daughterof hisheart and hearth dishonoured and lyinglifeless, with a sword thrust in her breast, whenso little could have saved her— just a moment —just a word!Iwent down out of the Vatican into the noblesunlit square, where in a high west wind thefountains were tossing like waves of the sea allfoam, and blown aloft in a storm; and the blackshadow of the mighty obelisk was travelling
ARIADNE.slowly across the whiteness of the place like theshadow of the arm of Time.Within, in the Sistine vaults,there were themultitudes come to judgment, and the openingheavens, and the yawning graves, and all theawful greatness that is veiled in the dusk asthe voices chaunt the Miserere: — if the day prefiguredthere everbreak, will nonerise from thetomb to ask why salvation came toolate ?VOL. III. I)
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- Page 38 and 39: 30ARIADNE.Would the wealth all fall
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- Page 52: 44 ARIADNE.me, and stayed on in Par
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- Page 59 and 60: ARIADNE. 51Myheart stood stUl. Ihad
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- Page 67 and 68: ARIADNE. 59garden,Isaw a messenger
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- Page 71 and 72: ARIADNE. 63' Hush !it will be finis
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- Page 75 and 76: ARIADNE. 67" Isuppose he never send
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- Page 81 and 82: CHAPTER V— t—Next dayIgot such
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ARIADNE.slowly across the whiteness of the place like theshadow of the arm of Time.Within, in the Sistine vaults,there were themultitudes come to judgment, and the openingheavens, and the yawning graves, and all theawful greatness that is veiled in the dusk asthe voices chaunt the Miserere: — if the day prefiguredthere everbreak, will nonerise from thetomb to ask why salvation came toolate ?VOL. III. I)
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