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I will strangle her with my own hand first! And turning from him, she darted up the winding stair. He followed: but the intense passion of the old hag hurled her onward with the strength and speed of a young Maenad. Once Philammon was near passing her. But he recollected that he did not know his way, and contented himself with keeping close behind, and making the fugitive his guide.
And there was my Maenad on the mat! all by herself, too, without that little piece of ugliness from upstairs behind her. I little thought this day this cursed day was to turn out so. I thought you were tired of the poor sculptor that you had deserted him for good and all. Ah! deesse je vous salue!
She still had long sufferings to face, and, in her own childish consciousness, the stigma of her lameness to bear. And she bore it. An almost maenad courage seemed to possess her, as if she were a long, thin, young weapon of life. She acknowledged all her mother's care. She would stand by her mother for ever. But some of her father's fine-tempered desperation flashed in her.
The tigress-mother swelled in her heart, and she looked like a Maenad indeed. "Is this then your religion?" she cried with quivering nostril. "Would he you dare to call your master have stolen into the house of a neighbour to play upon the weakness of a poor lad suffering from brain-fever? A fine trophy of your persuasive power and priestly craft you would make of him!
But with the angularity and thinness of first youth had gone also that wild and startling radiance which Montjoie had caught and fixed in the Maenad statue the one enduring work of a ruined talent, now to be found in the Luxembourg by anyone who cares to look for it.
She snatched the deer-skin from her shoulders, flourished it round and round in the air above her tangled black hair, and bellowed furiously: "Tear him in pieces!" "In pieces, with your teeth!" roared a drunken Maenad who, like most of the mob that had collected, knew nothing whatever of the popular grudge against Apollodorus and his house. But words had already begun to be followed by deeds.
Ignorance beautiful, divine Ignorance is forsaken by a generation that clamours for the truth. The earnest-minded person has plucked Zeus out of Heaven, and driven the Maenad from the wood, and dragged Poseidon out of his deep-sea palace.
But one short year ago she had followed a hand-organ man and a monkey to a point safely distant from too-observant relatives and servants; there, beside the chattering monkey, she had sung and danced and scrambled for pennies and shaken a tambourine, and generally conducted herself like a debutante maenad. That had been a glorious day. She recalled it now smoulderingly, resentfully.
For she remembered that she had heard of wanderers in the dusky groves of human passion, yes, even Maenad wanderers, who had suddenly come face to face with their own soul; and that the cruel paths of earthly love may yet lead the feet which tread them to the ivory gates of heaven.
They were sunk, and the dark shadows that encircled them were a shock to his artistic eye. These were the eyes of a girl who had raved like a maenad the night through. Had she not slept in her quiet little room; had she been rushing with Alexander in the wild Bacchic rout; or had something dreadful happened to his son?
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