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She waited, fairy-like and wanton, seeming to premeditate a delicate mischief. He declared, sighing, "No, I would not have it otherwise." Then presently Melusine arose. She said: "You are a hunted man, unarmed oh, yes, I know. Demetrios talked freely, because the son of Miramon Lluagor has good and ancient reasons to trust me.
"I know that He was the Messiah, Lord." "And yet you do not worship Him." The Jew said: "It was not altogether worship He desired. He asked that men should love Him. He does not ask love of me." "I find that an obscure saying," Demetrios considered. "It is a true saying, King of Kings. In time it will be made plain. That time is not yet come. I used to pray it would come soon.
Of how a knave hath late compassion On Melicent's forlorn condition; For which he saith as ye shall after hear: "Dame, since that game we play costeth too dear, My truth I plight, I shall you no more grieve By my behest, and here I take my leave As of the fairest, truest and best wife That ever yet I knew in all my life." How Demetrios Held His Chattel
Demetrios said, "Ay; and then night passes, and dawn comes to light my face, which is the most hideous to you among all the faces of men and women!" But Melicent said only: "Seignior, although the severing daylight endures for a long while, I must be brave and worthy of Perion's love nay, rather, of the love he gave me once. I may not grieve so long as no one else dares enter into our own woods."
To talk of Perion delighted Melicent: it was with such bribes that Demetrios purchased where his riches did not avail; and Melicent no longer avoided him. There is scope here for compassion. The man's love, if it be possible so to call that force which mastered him, had come to be an incessant malady.
It was a May morning, very hot and still, and Demetrios sat with his Christian wife in the Court of Stars. Said Melicent, "It is not unlikely that the Perion men know to-day has forgotten me and the service which I joyed to render Perion. Let him who would understand the mystery of the Crucifixion first become a lover!
Since the proconsul had no passport, he could not with safety endeavour to elude those officers of the Tribunal who must endorse the ship's passage at Piaja. Thus about sunset Demetrios waited the ship's coming, alone upon the Needle. This promontory is like a Titan's finger of black rock thrust out into the water.
This was more than Charley could stand. "Come on, lad," he called to me; and we lost no time jumping into our salmon boat and getting up sail. The crowd shouted warning to Demetrios, and as we darted out from the wharf we saw him slash his worthless net clear with a long knife. His sail was all ready to go up, and a moment later it fluttered in the sunshine.
And at the mouth of the Straits I looked with not a little interest upon the spot where a few days before I should have drowned but for the good that was in the nature of Demetrios Contos. A great wall of fog advanced across San Pablo Bay to meet us, and in a few minutes the Reindeer was running blindly through the damp obscurity.
With the advantage of a quiet advent, as was quickly proven, he found no check for a notorious leave-taking. How a Minstrel Came Demetrios came to Megaris where Perion lay fettered in the Castle of San' Alessandro, then a new building.
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