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88 ARIADNE.snatched by some passing hand from death,hasblamed his saviour. She had only awakened toagony, like the patient under the knife when theanæsthetic has too soon ceased its spell. Ionlymade her suffer more a thousandfold by liftingup that cloud uponher brahi. YetIhad clonefor the best, andIhad praised heaven for itsmercies when she had looked with eyes of consciousnessupon the moonlit Tiber, andhad criedaloud the name of Rome!Ihad clone for the best: so hadIdone whenIhad gone up to the Golden Hill,and told thestory of my dream toMaryx.As my memories went back to him, thinkingdully there in the dark, not daring to enter thechamber again, for there was no sound, andIthought perhaps she slept in the gloom and thewarmth of the heat, a footfall that was familiarcame upon the stairs, a shadow was between meand the dull lamp swinging down below, thevoice of Maryx came through the silence and thedarkness to myear."Are you there? "he said to me, "are youthere ? "
ARIADNE. 89"Yes,Iam here. Hush! speak low!" Ianswered him; andIrose up, afraid, forIhad had no idea that he could have returnedto Rome, which was stupid in me, doubtless,.because several months had gone by sinceIhadset forth to walk across France, and from homeIhad had no tidings, shice none of my friendscoidd either read or write.A vague fear fell uponme,Ihardlyknow why,.seeing his dark and noble head bending clownupon mine in the gloom." Hush! speak low!" Isaid to him, and I*rose up from the stair and stared up at him." You are come back ? "" Yes,Ihave comeback. Iheard thathe waswith another woman, there in Cairo; is thattrue ? "" No doubt itis true; Icannot tell where hemay be, but she is here — alone."His great dark eyes seemed to have flame inthem, like alion's by night, as they looked downinto mine in the dusk of the stairway. Hegripped my shoulder with ahard hand." Tell meall," he said. AndItoldhim.
- 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 and 90: ARIADNE. 81shores, and on the domes
- Page 91 and 92: ARIADNE. 83motionless.Itouched and
- Page 93 and 94: ARIADNE. 85quiet and deserted; the
- Page 95: ARIADNE. 87went out and sat clown o
- 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
- 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
ARIADNE. 89"Yes,Iam here. Hush! speak low!" Ianswered him; andIrose up, afraid, forIhad had no idea that he could have returnedto Rome, which was stupid in me, doubtless,.because several months had gone by sinceIhadset forth to walk across France, and from homeIhad had no tidings, shice none of my friendscoidd either read or write.A vague fear fell uponme,Ihardlyknow why,.seeing his dark and noble head bending clownupon mine in the gloom." Hush! speak low!" Isaid to him, and I*rose up from the stair and stared up at him." You are come back ? "" Yes,Ihave comeback. Iheard thathe waswith another woman, there in Cairo; is thattrue ? "" No doubt itis true; Icannot tell where hemay be, but she is here — alone."His great dark eyes seemed to have flame inthem, like alion's by night, as they looked downinto mine in the dusk of the stairway. Hegripped my shoulder with ahard hand." Tell meall," he said. AndItoldhim.
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