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Updated: May 16, 2025
That was the great question for him. Since his struggle in the forest of Defetgamm he had come to the resolve to strike fierce and reiterated blows on that disabling and surely contemptible love of his, that love which had confronted him like a specter when he was in the pavilion with Jimmy.
The Armenians call the forest Defetgamm. Perhaps you will come under its influence." "Defetgamm! What does that mean?" "Dispeller of care." He stood looking at her for a moment; then, without another word, he turned quickly away and disappeared among the trees. Jimmy slept with his face hidden, and Mrs. Clarke, with wide-open eyes, sat motionless staring into the forest.
She came so silently that Dion heard nothing till against the background of the night he saw a shadow, her thin body, a faint whiteness, her face, motionless at the opening of the pavilion; from this shadow and this whiteness came a voice which said: "Did you come under the influence of Defetgamm?" "It's impossible that you see me!" he said. "I see you plainly with some part of me, not my eyes."
In the pavilion that morning it had suddenly risen up before him strong, intense, passionate. It seemed irresistible. But he was almost furiously resolved not merely to resist it, but to crush it down, to break it in pieces, or to drive it finally out of his life. And he had fought with it alone in the forest which the Armenians call Defetgamm.
He got up from the divan where he had been sitting in the dark and went to the opening of the pavilion. "Did you come under the influence of Defetgamm?" she repeated. "You know I didn't." He paused, then added: "I nearly didn't come to-night." "And I nearly went down, after I had come up here, without seeing you. And yet we are together again." "Why do you want to see me here? We agreed "
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