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There is a bond of blood sealed between them. It is the mere sensation of a night; the talk of an idle day. On the next evening the "El Dorado" is thronged with a great multitude. It is eager to gaze on the wondrous woman's face, for which "French Charlie" died. Their quest is vain. Another daughter of the Paphian divinity presides at the shrine of rouge et noir.
The Maiden. Thou makest me lie down by the water-course, defiling my fair raiment! Daphnis. Nay, see, 'neath thy raiment fair I am throwing this soft fleece. The Maiden. Ah, ah, thou hast snatched my girdle too; why hast thou loosed my girdle? Daphnis. These first-fruits I offer, a gift to the Paphian. The Maiden. Stay, wretch, hark; surely a stranger cometh; nay, I hear a sound. Daphnis.
With a skin that had the peculiar white and rosiness of fresh pork, he had blue eyes, celestially wide open and staring, and the thick flocculent yellow curls of the sun god! He might have been an overgrown and badly dressed Cupid who had innocently wandered from Paphian shores.
And Franchi looked round upon his audience with a glance of gratified malice. "Even in Lucca! even in Lucca!" Malatesta clapped his hands and chuckled until he almost choked. "Laus Veneri! the mighty goddess! She has reared an altar even here in this benighted city. I was a skeptic, but a Paphian miracle has converted me. I must drink a punch in honor of the great goddess."
The performances at the Paphian Hall on that festive occasion need not be described here with accuracy. The New Year had been seen well in with music, dancing, and wine. The seeing of it in was continued yet for an hour, till an indulgent policeman was forced to interfere.
Nay, please thyself, no woful tune delights me. Daphnis. Ah maiden, see that thou too shun the anger of the Paphian. The Maiden. Good-bye to the Paphian, let Artemis only be friendly! Daphnis. Say not so, lest she smite thee, and thou fall into a trap whence there is no escape. The Maiden. Let her smite an she will; Artemis again would be my defender.
What could she know of the changed life, the absolute renunciation of pleasant bachelor vices, the pulling up short, and all those actions that speak more softly than words? What could she know of the strength and depth of the love that could keep such a man as the Colonel from the bar, the bridge-table, the race-course and the Paphian dame?
In the humblest event, I resolved at least to achieve a novel that should evolve some deep lesson, and should possess physical substance enough to stand alone. It was here that Emerson wrote Nature; for he was then an inhabitant of the Manse, and used to watch the Assyrian dawn and Paphian sunset and moonrise from the summit of our eastern hill.
If there be no larger knowledge of the moral law there is a more universal sense of moral obligation. Those pearls of Oman which Corydon designs for Amaryllis would not have adorned so noble a woman had they circled the neck of the Paphian Venus or Helen of Troy.
For why, ah overbold, didst thou follow the chase, and being so fair, why wert thou thus overhardy to fight with beasts? So Cypris bewailed her, the Loves join in the lament: Woe, woe for Cytherea, he hath perished the lovely Adonis! A tear the Paphian sheds for each blood-drop of Adonis, and tears and blood on the earth are turned to flowers.
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