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He fled once more; but, higher up, yet a second time he pushed another door open and found another gallery, one perched above the windows, just where the splendid mosaics begin, and whence the crowd seemed to him lost in the depths of a dizzy abyss, altar and baldacchino alike looking no larger than toys.
Early next morning I set out alone to explore the strange place, and with much difficulty and some apprehension for I did not know how the natives were disposed ascended a steep rocky path, at the summit of which a wooden drawbridge leads over a deep abyss to the gate of the city. This bridge is the only access to Yezdi-Ghazt, which is, so to speak, a regular fortress-town.
"A hundred years it is lilac," he said, "and a hundred thousand years it is a purple brown." The doctor, bending lovingly over a specimen of a rare water plant, looked up to see Michael's quivering face. He withdrew the book gently and took it away. Michael trembled exceedingly. He was on the verge of some abyss which he should see clearly in another moment.
His eyes looked straight into hers, but they held only a great darkness in which no flicker of light burned. Avery felt as if the gulf between them had widened to a measureless abyss. Once she could have read him like an open book; but now she had not the vaguest clue to his feelings or his motives. He had as it were withdrawn beyond her ken. "Is it to be only make-believe?" she asked at last.
It was to stir the depths of his contemplations and comparisons and give him the sharpest look into German character he had yet received. It was to show him that a gaping abyss might be separating the Teuton from other western humanity.
Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondetour, had witnessed, shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may be designated as the call of the abyss.
Nothing existed on this earth then, and I made all things. There was none other who worked with me at that time. I performed all evolutions there by means of that divine Soul which I fashioned there, and which had remained inoperative in the watery abyss. I found no place there whereon to stand. But I was strong in my heart, and I made a foundation for myself, and I made everything which was made.
But this separation-supposing they could obtain it, through the consent of M. de Camors, or the authority of the law would give to the public a secret scandal, and might entail redoubled catastrophes. Were it not for these consequences she would, at least, have dug between Madame de Camors and her husband an eternal abyss. Madame de Tecle did not desire this.
You have only to dive deep enough into the abyss to feel that you are rising. That is the only glory of this universe it is a giddy universe." Then, as Turnbull was still silent, he added: "The heavens are full of revolution of the real sort of revolution. All the high things are sinking low and all the big things looking small.
The other horseman struck spurs into his animal and galloped up the narrow path to the head of the ravine without a backward glance. She was left transfixed by horror in a growing darkness that seemed to penetrate to her very soul. Which of the two had galloped free? Which lay shattered there, very far below her in an abyss that had already become obscure?
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