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"We'll need the new apparatus to be positive about it, but it's there, all right," Ayesha said. "That's why Luis' voice pleases them." "That tags me; Old Pump-Mouth," Gofredo said. "It'll get all through the Corps, and they'll be calling me that when I'm a four-star general, if I live that long." Meillard was really worried, now. So was Bennet Fayon. He said so that afternoon at cocktail time.
Whatever I have done by tears, that ancient artifice of my sex, as in other ways, is for thy instruction, Allan, that thou mayest benefit thereby." Again I sprang up, uttering an English exclamation which I trust Ayesha did not understand, and again she motioned to me to be seated, saying,
Resting her arm upon the table, Ayesha looked at him with sombre eyes and answered "In that Faith of thine of which thou speakest are there perchance two gods, each having many ministers: a god of good and a god of evil, an Osiris and a Set?" He nodded. "I thought it. And the god of ill is strong, is he not, and can put on the shape of good?
Fools, every one of us, though perchance I am the greatest fool among them. Now take me to the warrior, Umslopogaas, whom I would thank, as I thank you, Allan, and the little yellow man, although he jeers at me with his sharp tongue, not knowing that if I were angered, with a breath I could cause him to cease to be." "Then why did you not choose Rezu to cease to be, and his army also, Ayesha?"
Gone were the austerities of winter with his harsh winds, and in their place spring, companioned by her zephyrs, glided down the vale singing her song of love and life. There in this high chamber, in the presence of the living and the dead, while the last act of the great tragedy unrolled itself before me, looking on Ayesha that forgotten scene sprang into my mind.
"Ayesha," he said, "Ayesha!" The figure glided towards him and stopped. He sat up in the bed still fast asleep, for his eyes were shut. He stretched out his arms, as though seeking one whom he would embrace, and spoke again in a low and passionate voice "Ayesha, through life and death I have sought thee long. Come to me, my goddess, my desired."
The sheyk had been much impressed by Arthur's exploit in swimming or floating round the headland and saving the child, and regarded his height as something gigantic. Moreover, Yusuf had asserted that he was son to a great Bey in his own country, and in consequence Abou Ben Zegri was willing to adopt him as his son, provided he would embrace the true faith, and marry Ayesha, the widow.
Whatever this Khania may have been to me in the past if she was anything at all that story is done with. I seek Ayesha, and Ayesha alone, and Venus herself shall not tempt me from her."
I see, the white man you name Avenger. Where is he gone?" "That is what I wish to ask you, Ayesha," I said. "How can I tell you, Allan, who in this place lack any glass into which to look for things that pass afar. Still, let me try," and pressing her hands to her forehead, she remained silent for perhaps a minute, then spoke slowly.
I sprang to him, and there, withered in Ayesha's kiss, slain by the fire of her love, Leo lay dead lay dead upon the breast of dead Atene! I heard Ayesha say presently, and the words struck me as dreadful in their hopeless acceptance of a doom against which even she had no strength to struggle. "It seems that my lord has left me for awhile; I must hasten to my lord afar."
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