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CHAPTER VI.We stood there, two creatures, quite alone onthe edge of the river. There must have beenpeople near,but there were none in sight;theboats rocked onthelittle waves;the heavymassesof the trees wereblack;breadths of silveryhghtrippled under the arches;from the convent ofthe Franciscans on the island,there came distantsounds of chanting;the fidl moon hung abovethe pines of Pamfili. She remained kneeling :■herhead bowedclownbetweenher hands. Greatsobs shook allher frame.It was so still; there might have been onlyin the city, the ghostly world of all its deadmultitudes, it was so still. At lastIgrewfrightened, seeing her thus upon the stones, so-
ARIADNE. 83motionless.Itouched and raised her; she roseslowly to her feet." HaveIbeen mad ?" she said to me.Hardly couldIkeep from weeping,Imyself." Nay, my dear, not that," Isaid to her." Nay, never that; you have been ill. Butnow-?>She shivered from head to foot. With returningreasonno doubt she remembered all thingsthat had passed. She was silent, standing andlooking on the Etruscan river, she had loved sowell, asit flowed to the sea beneath the moon.Her eyeshad lost their strained look of unconsciouspain,and the burning light had gone outof them; they were wet and dim, and had anunspeakablemisery in them,like that in ayounganimal's, whenitis dying,andknows thatit dies." What month isit ? " she asked.Itoldher."It was summer when he wrote," she said,and then was still again, gazing at the water.Ibegan to fear that too soonIhad rejoiced,and that the clouds woulcl gather overher again,and that she again woulcl lose herself in thata 2
- Page 40 and 41: 32ARIADNE.their cuirasses of steel,
- Page 42 and 43: CHAPTER IVIwent to Pippo, andIsaid
- Page 44 and 45: 36ARIADNE.AndItook the other things
- Page 46 and 47: 38 ARIADNE.must have been, all alon
- Page 48 and 49: 40 ARIADNE.Ifelt my head whirl;I, w
- Page 50 and 51: 42 ARIADNE.at a line of the poem no
- Page 52: 44 ARIADNE.me, and stayed on in Par
- Page 55 and 56: ARIADNE. 47had been able to hear no
- Page 57 and 58: ARIADNE. 49aside in a little passag
- Page 59 and 60: ARIADNE. 51Myheart stood stUl. Ihad
- Page 61 and 62: ARIADNE. 53" Oh, my dear! Oh, my de
- Page 63 and 64: ARIADNE. 55He breathed quickly, the
- Page 65 and 66: ARIADNE. 57think he was cruel to he
- Page 67 and 68: ARIADNE. 59garden,Isaw a messenger
- Page 69 and 70: ARIADNE. 61'sorrowful,though knowin
- Page 71 and 72: ARIADNE. 63' Hush !it will be finis
- Page 73 and 74: ARIADNE. 65she is always asking;tha
- Page 75 and 76: ARIADNE. 67" Isuppose he never send
- Page 77 and 78: ARIADNE. 69agony,Irepented then hav
- Page 79 and 80: ARIADNE. 71thinking only of her;but
- Page 81 and 82: CHAPTER V— t—Next dayIgot such
- Page 83 and 84: ARIADNE. 75see them even. No doubt
- Page 85 and 86: ARIADNE. 77waters, and here and the
- Page 87 and 88: ARIADNE. 79Iwalked on and led her b
- Page 89: ARIADNE. 81shores, and on the domes
- Page 93 and 94: ARIADNE. 85quiet and deserted; the
- Page 95 and 96: ARIADNE. 87went out and sat clown o
- Page 97 and 98: ARIADNE. 89"Yes,Iam here. Hush! spe
- Page 99 and 100: ARIADNE. 91to me, a Roman, to whom
- 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,
- 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
- Page 133 and 134: ARIADNE. 125parts of Rome; a turn o
- 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
ARIADNE. 83motionless.Itouched and raised her; she roseslowly to her feet." HaveIbeen mad ?" she said to me.Hardly couldIkeep from weeping,Imyself." Nay, my dear, not that," Isaid to her." Nay, never that; you have been ill. Butnow-?>She shivered from head to foot. With returningreasonno doubt she remembered all thingsthat had passed. She was silent, standing andlooking on the Etruscan river, she had loved sowell, asit flowed to the sea beneath the moon.Her eyeshad lost their strained look of unconsciouspain,and the burning light had gone outof them; they were wet and dim, and had anunspeakablemisery in them,like that in ayounganimal's, whenitis dying,andknows thatit dies." What month isit ? " she asked.Itoldher."It was summer when he wrote," she said,and then was still again, gazing at the water.Ibegan to fear that too soonIhad rejoiced,and that the clouds woulcl gather overher again,and that she again woulcl lose herself in thata 2
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