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Demetrios was silent. He, too, was frightened, because this despot knew and none knew better that in his lordly house far oversea Callistion would find equipment for a hundred curious tortures. "It has been difficult for me to tell you this," Demetrios then said, "because it savours of an appeal to spare me.
In consequence the man is dead. Oh, Melicent, I wonder why I am so sad!" Callistion's meditative eyes were dry, but those of Melicent were not. And Melicent came to the Dacian woman, and put one arm about her in that dim, sweet-scented place, saying, "I never meant to wrong you." Callistion did not seem to heed. Then Callistion said: "See now! Do you not see the difference between us!"
"Oh, gaze your fill," said Melicent, "and know that had you possessed a tithe of my beauty you might have held the heart of Demetrios." For it was in Melicent's mind to provoke the woman into killing her before worse befell. But Callistion only studied the proud face for a long while, and knew there was no lovelier person between two seas.
The master of Nacumera did not speak a syllable while his retainers seized Callistion, gagged her, and tied her hands with cords. They silently removed her. Orestes had the nicest sense of etiquette. This series of swift deeds was performed with such a glib precipitancy that if was as though the action had been rehearsed a score of times.
So I played, in fine, I played a cunning music. The pride of Demetrios, the jealousy of Callistion, and the greed of Orestes these were as so many stops of that flute on which I played a cunning deadly music. Who forbids it?" She motioned him, "Go on." Now she was not afraid. "Come then to the last note of my music! You offer to bargain, saying, Save Perion and have my body as your chattel.
"His face would be all pink and white, like yours " "No, tanned like yours, Callistion. Oh, he is like an eagle, very resolute. His glance bedwarfs you. I used to be afraid to look at him, even when I saw how foolishly he loved me " "I know," Callistion said. "All women know. Ah, we know many things "
For time here had pillaged very sparingly; and if Dame Melicent had not any longer the first beauty of her girlhood, Callistion had nowhere seen a woman more handsome than this hated Frankish thief. Callistion said: "No, I was not ever so beautiful as you. Yet this Demetrios loved me when I, too, was lovely. You never saw the man in battle.
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