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Althea took flight with the others, presently returning to look after her forlorn brother, but, finding I had been taken to the kitchen for something that might at least alleviate the pangs of hunger, she rejoined the girls in the parlor, where there was already a dance under way. Althea was a bright-spirited girl, vivacious, alert, appreciative and companionable.
When Chrysilla presented the black-bearded artist to the Thracian, she would have sworn that Althea found an old acquaintance in the sculptor; but Hermon treated the far-famed relative of Queen Arsinoe as coldly and distantly as if he now saw her for the first time, and with little pleasure. In truth, he was glad to avoid women of Althea's stamp.
Lovelace's Lucasta, a volume of love lyrics, is generally on a higher plane than Suckling's work; and a few of the poems like "To Lucasta," and "To Althea, from Prison," deserve the secure place they have won. Shakespeare and Milton are the two figures that tower conspicuously above the goodly fellowship of men who have made our literature famous.
They were tall, and two of them were beautiful, and the faces of all were stern. Althea knew at once that they were the Fates who give gifts of some kind to every child that is born, and who say whether his life shall be a happy one or full of sadness and sorrow. "What shall we give to this child?" said the eldest and sternest of the three strangers.
It would interest me to hear about them. 'No; I drift too, said Althea. 'You can't call it drifting when you read and study such a lot. 'Oh yes, I can, when there is no real aim in the work. You should hear Mr. Kane scold me about that. Gerald was not interested in Mr. Kane. 'I should think, after all you've done, you might rest on your oars for a bit, he remarked.
She sprang up, and, hurrying on some clothes, she ran down-stairs; for, as she told me, she had no more doubt of its being Andrew who called, than if it had been broad daylight, and she could see him standing below the window; and, being too impatient to unlock any door, she undid the hasp of the nearest casement and climbed out; and at the same moment hearing a voice again calling softly, 'Althea, she ran in the direction of the sound, and came upon a man whom in the starlight she saw to be Andrew indeed; she spoke his name, holding out both her hands, and he turning at once grasped them in both his, and so they stood gazing at each other awhile.
And now Althea began her search after Andrew, with none to help her but poor me and honest Will. Our chief care being not to be seen going out or coming in, she chose to steal forth of the back door early in the mornings; sometimes I with her, sometimes Will, but one of us always staying in the house to watch it, and to open at nightfall to the others.
"Yes, while she breathes there's a chance, I suppose," replied the doctor, without looking up, but changing uneasily his position. "Well, I have an awful headache; I will lie down in the next room; if she is worse, you can call me," and the cloud disappeared. Althea had been some time sleeping quietly, neither articulating nor moaning. Dr. Hardy watched her as only doctors watch their patients.
'Then why do you say it's incredible that she is going to? Why, indeed? but Althea held her lash. 'I did not believe, even of her, that she would marry a man she considered so completely insignificant, so completely negligible a man she described to me as a funny little man. There are limits, even to Helen's insensitiveness, I should have imagined. She had discovered the raw.
'Harmless and peaceable, quotha? said he; 'it was one of these peaceable creatures flung me into the dust like a worm; but the worm turns, you know. I took much pains to requite that kindness, and now I cry quits with Master Andrew. 'Your wickedness shall return on your own head! I pray God it may! cries Althea, trembling with indignation.
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