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Updated: July 12, 2025
In the beautiful armor, Demedes was handsome, particularly as there was no other man near to force a comparison of stature; yet she did not see any of his braveries she saw his face alone, and with what feeling may be inferred from the fact that she now knew who brought her where she was, and the purpose of the bringing.
The afternoon was going rapidly. The shadow of the building on the west crept more noticeably across the carefully kept field. Still Sergius retained his seat watchful of Demedes. He saw him signal the riders to turn out he saw the line form, and the sections begin to march past it then an incident occurred of no appreciable importance at the moment, but replete with significancy a little later.
We pass over his resorts in unravelling the mysteries; they were many and cunning, and thoroughly tried the first virtue of the Academical motto; still the sum of his finding with respect to the Prince was a mere theory he was a Jew and rich beyond this Demedes took nothing for his pains. He proceeded next to investigate Lael.
They were at the instant in a bar of brightest sunlight projected across the road; and had she asked him the cause of the frown on his face, he could not have told her he was thinking of Demedes. "Yes, I see it I see it, and congratulate you upon being so doubly blessed. Tell me next who the Prince of India is." She looked now here, now there, he watching her narrowly. "Oh!
Once installed there, it was supposed that longings for the upper world would go gradually out. The mistress, with nothing to wish for not at hand, was to be a Queen, with Demedes and his chosen of the philosophic circle for her ministers. In other words, the Academic Temple in the upper world was but a place of meeting; this was the Temple in fact.
With the free hand, he snatched the key from his belt, and swung it to strike the blow was intercepted the key wrenched away. Then Demedes' spirit forsook him mortal terror showed in his face turned gray as ashes, and in his eyes, enlarged yet ready to burst from their sockets. He had not the gladiator's resignation under judgment of death.
Altogether it would have been impossible for him to have chosen a course more perplexing to Demedes, who found himself driven to his next play. "You know now," he said to his father, "why I decline to break a crust with you. I must go and help uncover this wicked deed.
Julian, never pausing until he was at the bench in the angle of the wall from which he had overheard Demedes' story of the Plague of Crime.
It was singular Sergius had not looked for Demedes amongst them, since the idea of him would have entitled the Greek to a chief seat in the Temple and a leading place when in the eye of the public. As it was, he could not repress an exclamation on making the discovery. Like his associates, Demedes was in armor cap-a-pie.
And then in what he had seen of Demedes what courage, dash, and audacity what efficiency what store of resources! The last play of his attending the fete of the Princess Irene as a bear tender who but Demedes would have thought of such a role? Who else could have made himself the hero of the occasion, with none to divide honors with him except Joqard?
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