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She could not remember whether she had last seen him behind her, in front, or blundering through the undergrowth, still confident, in spite of perpetual disappointment, in his power to overtake a rabbit. Now the dog's temper, admirable with his friends, was uncertain with strangers, and Amaryllis was accustomed to keep him close at heel in public places.
Now you can reason this thought out in all its branches, and you will see where it leads to " Amaryllis mused for some moments and she saw the justice of his reflections. "But for hundreds of years there have been priests and nuns and companies of ascetics," she remarked tentatively. "There have been hundreds of lunatics also and madness is not on the decrease.
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Thus the advent of Verisschenzko, who thrilled her always, and a possible new admirer in Denzil, seemed a heaven-sent occurrence. Amaryllis and John were undesired but unavoidable appendages who had to be swallowed. Denzil's type particularly attracted her.
But the little Spaniard, standing apart, was astonished; his dark eyes showed wide rings of white eyeball, and the open mouth teeth even whiter, as he stared, aghast yet curious, at the living thunderbolt which had fallen so near to him. Ockley, however, directly his eyes had taken in what he had leapt back from, had begun what even Amaryllis could see was the rush of an expert.
And gradually he became calm, and was almost startled when Amaryllis, who had been watching him furtively and had begun to wonder if he was really so interested in his paper, said timidly: "Will you pull the window up a little? It seems to be growing cold." She noticed that his lips were set firmly and that an abstracted expression had grown in his eyes.
For two or three hundred yards the pair walked in silence; and now that terror had passed with the imminence of danger, and that no strange eyes surrounded her for which she must play a part not learned nor rehearsed, the terrible pressure which had brought Amaryllis so close to her companion was relaxed not annihilated, but withdrawn to lurk in sky and air, instead of squeezing the very life and breath out of her physical body.
"Amaryllis is the eldest of the three, and yet," Saint-Aignan hastened to add, "this advanced age does not reach twenty years." Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente, who had slightly knitted her brows at the commencement of the description, unbent them with a smile.
Soft dusk and quiet proved that the doors of Amaryllis had been shut upon unhappy Jerusalem. The second servant drew a cord and a roller of matting lifted and showed a skylight. Philadelphus the pretender was in the andronitis of a Greek house. It was typical. None but a Greek with the purest taste had planned it. Walls and pavement were of unpolished marble, lusterless white.
But he had said to her after their stately dinner in the great dining-hall: "Play to me a little, Amaryllis, and then go to bed, child you must be tired out." And after that he had not spoken more, but pushed her gently towards the door with a solemn kiss on the forehead, and just a murmur of "Good-night."
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