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He had opened the body of one of Archias's slaves, who had been nursed by Daphne, and cured him after all other physicians had given him up. When this man's voice reached Hermon, he repeated to himself the words of refusal with which the great physician had formerly declined to devote his time and skill to him. Perhaps he was right then and how differently he treated him to-day!
Then, all in a moment without, as it seemed to him, any but the mildest defensive action on his part Daphne stumbled and fell. "Daphne! I say! He was stooping over her in great distress to lift her up, when he felt himself vehemently put aside by a woman's hand. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, sir! Let me go to her." He turned in bewilderment. "Miss Farmer! What on earth are you doing here?"
Anaxagoras told him the story which the Twins had told to him. "A very neat plot! Is it not?" said Pericles gravely, when Anaxagoras had finished. "They said something about you too," said Daphne, lifting her eyes to Anaxagoras. "Indeed!" said Anaxagoras. "So I am in it, too! What did they say?" "They said you were an old fox," said Daphne. The two men laughed.
And certainly it had never occurred to him to pay them back in kind. What did it matter to her or to anyone that Chloe Morant had made a fool of him? His recollection of the fooling, at the time he proposed to Daphne, was still so poignant that it would have been impossible to speak of it. And within a few months afterwards he had practically forgotten it and Chloe too.
Daphne, too, covered her face, and imposed the strongest restraint upon herself that she might not sob aloud. So it seemed a boon to both when Hermon expressed the desire to spend part of the night on deck. This desire contained a summons to action, and to be able to bestir themselves in useful service appeared like a favour to Thyone and Daphne.
"But do look," he exclaimed a second later, "she does; there she goes with Jerry Dodd, and she dances beautifully too. Whatever made her say she couldn't?" Phyllis was speechless with mirth, but she managed to nod to Daphne as she sailed by, still with Jerry.
Yet in this hour he felt that he was united to her, and ought not to conceal what awaited him; so, obeying a strong impulse, he exclaimed: "You know that I love you! Words can not express the strength of my devotion, but for that very reason I must do what duty commands before I ask the question, 'Will you join your fate to mine?" "I love you and have loved you always!" Daphne exclaimed tenderly.
Assunta dragged her husband by the hem of his white apron through the great marble-paved dining-room out into the smoke-browned kitchen in the rear. "Now where's Tommaso, and how am I going to get my chicken?" she demanded. "And why, in the name of all the saints, should an American signorina's illustrious name be Daphne?" An hour later it was four o'clock.
For all their hard morning's work they were still on the confines of the Villa Gianelli, whose kingdom was partly a kingdom of air and of mountain. Drowsing there in the old theatre in the sun, Daphne presently saw, stepping daintily through one of the entrances at the side, an audience of white sheep. They overspread the stage, cropping as they went.
True, he had yielded reluctantly to this arrangement of his parents' old friend, and neither she nor Daphne had hitherto succeeded in soothing the fierce resentment against fate which filled his soul after the loss of his sight and his dearest friend. As yet every attempt to induce him to bear his terrible misfortune with even a certain degree of composure had failed.
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