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All this was not comfortable for Madame Zamenoy; and she fretted and fumed till her husband had no peace in his house, and Ziska almost wished that he might hear no more of the Jew and his betrothal. She could not even commence her system of persecution, as Nina did not go near her, and had already told Lotta Luxa that she must decline to discuss the question of her marriage any further.
But, apparently without displeasure, he moved it with his left hand, while he swayed his right hand backwards and forwards as though regulating the melody of the wail. Beyond the High Priest Ziska saw Anton Trendellsohn, and close to the son he saw the old man whom he had met in the street, and whom he recognised as Anton's father.
Thick darkness encompassed him; he stretched out his hands in the murky atmosphere and felt nothing. "Ziska!" he cried. The name sprang up against the silence and struck out numberless echoes, and with the echoes came a shuddering sigh, that was not of them, whispering: "Charmazel!" Gervase heard it, and a deadly fear, born of the supernatural, possessed him. "Ziska!
But the Princess Ziska spoke of him as a great warrior in the days of Amenhotep, and she seems to be a great Egyptologist, and to know many things of which we are ignorant. Then you know last night she adopted the costume of a dancer of that period, named Ziska-Charmazel. Well, now it appears that in one part of this fresco the scene depicted is this very Ziska- Charmazel dancing before Araxes."
To be loved by him is the only good thing which God has given me on earth. Now, Ziska, you will know why I cannot be your wife." Still she stood before him, and still she looked up into his face, keeping her gaze upon him even after her words were finished. "Accursed Jew!" said Ziska. "That is right, Ziska; curse him; it is so easy." "And you too will be cursed here and hereafter.
Nina, indeed, had declared positively that they were in the Ross Markt, saying that Ziska had so stated in direct terms; but there might be a mistake in this. At any rate he would interrogate Nina, and if there were need, would not spare the old man any questions that could lead to the truth.
And if you would be frank with yourself, you know that passion has already cooled. I repeat, you will never see Gervase or the Princess Ziska again in this life; so make the best of it." "Perhaps you have assisted him to escape me!" said Denzil frigidly. Dr. Dean smiled. "That's rather a rough speech, Denzil! But never mind!" he returned. "Your pride is wounded, and you are still sore.
No trace of him or of the Princess Ziska could be discovered; his portmanteau contained no letters or papers, nothing but a few clothes; his paint-box and easel were sent on to his deserted studio in Paris, and also a blank square of canvas, on which, as Dr. Dean and others knew, had once been the curiously-horrible portrait of the Princess.
"It is impossible that Nina should have them," said Trendellsohn. "How should she have got them?" "That is nothing to us," said Madame Zamenoy. "The whole thing is nothing to us. You have heard all that we can tell you, and you had better go." "You have heard more than I would have told you myself," said Ziska, "had I been left to my opinion."
"And have you been selling anything?" "Nothing of yours, Ziska." "But have you been selling anything?" "Why do you ask me? What business is it of yours?" "They say that Anton Trendellsohn, the Jew, gives you all that you want," said Ziska. "Then they say lies," said Nina, her eyes flashing fire upon her Christian lover through the gloom of the evening. "Who says so? You say so.
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