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'It was because it is a pleasure to the old and withered to look upon young hearts like yours and to know the time will come when you will loathe each other loathe loathe ha! ha! ha! It was now Ione's turn to pray against the unpleasing prophecy. 'The gods forbid! said she. 'Yet, poor woman, thou knowest little of love, or thou wouldst know that it never changes.
He made his way to her solitude and with that sort of quiet and unapologetic air which seemed to consider the right as a thing of course. With all the independence of Ione's character, his heart had enabled him to obtain a secret and powerful control over her mind. She could not shake it off; sometimes she desired to do so; but she never actively struggled against it.
The stars were fading one by one from the grey heavens, and night slowly receding before the approach of morn, when a dark group stood motionless before Ione's door. High and slender torches, made paler by the unmellowed dawn, cast their light over various countenances, hushed for the moment in one solemn and intent expression.
I fancy not, yet it ought to be so. 'Fancy no such grievous wrong to Ione, answered Glaucus, laughing. 'But we do not, alas! resemble each other, as the homely and the beautiful sometimes do. Ione's hair is dark, mine light; Ione's eyes are what color, Ione? I cannot see, turn them to me. Oh, are they black? no, they are too soft.
In less than half an hour we shall fall in with the Ione's boats, and then we may defy the whole nest of pirates to stop us." "I shall have no further fear when we have lost sight of that dreadful vessel, which looks even now like some slumbering monster about to awake and rush after us," she answered, pointing to the Sea Hawk, which lay still open inside the harbour's mouth.
Either Zappa did not see, or did not comprehend, the Ione's signal, for instead of attending to it, he continued running down the west shore of the island, directly into the jaws of the Greek; but he reckoned probably that he should be able to hug the shore so close that she could not come near him, and he then hoped, it seemed, to get away among the rocks and reefs to the southward, where she could not venture to follow.
A shiver passed through the slight frame of the blind girl, but she wept no more she was resigned. 'Go, then, my Nydia, to Ione's house they shall show thee the way. Take her the fairest flowers thou canst pluck; the vase which contains them I will give thee: thou must excuse its unworthiness.
As the ship drew near England he thought over and over again of what he should say; no one had written, as the commander had been unwilling to alarm the boy's friends while any uncertainty existed. They would, therefore, on seeing the announcement in the papers of the "Ione's" return, be looking out eagerly for him. The corvette had a rapid passage, and on reaching Portsmouth was at once paid off.
Come, come; you can recollect this! read this papyrus, it runs to that effect sign it, and thou art saved. 'Barbarian, give me the written lie, that I may tear it! I the murderer of Ione's brother: I confess to have injured one hair of the head of him she loved! Let me rather perish a thousand times!
'But what? draw back the horses are too near thee. 'But think you Ione will permit me to pass the day with Julia, the daughter of Diomed? She wishes it, and was kind to me when I had few friends. 'The gods bless thy grateful heart! I will answer for Ione's permission. 'Then I may stay over the night, and return to-morrow? said Nydia, shrinking from the praise she so little merited.
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