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Updated: June 23, 2025
Dame Melicent walked proudly through the Women's Garden, and presently entered a grove of orange trees, the most of which were at this season about their flowering. In this place was an artificial pool by which the trees were nourished. On its embankment sprawled the body of young Diophantus, a child of some ten years of age, Demetrios' son by Tryphera.
"You knave," he said, "because of your pride you have imperilled your accursed life your life on which the life of Melicent depends! You must need delay and rescue me, while your spawn inflicted hideous infamies on Melicent! Oh, I had never hated you until to-night!" Demetrios was pleased.
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.
She wept, and less for joy of winning home to Perion at last than for her grief that Demetrios was dying. Woman-like, she could remember only that the man had loved her in his fashion. And, woman-like, she could but wonder at the strength of Perion. Then Demetrios said: "I must depart into a doubtful exile.
But since your will is our will, we must endure this testing, although we find it bitter as aloes and hot as coals. Dear lord and master, none has put food to his lips for whose sake we would harm you willingly, and we shall weep to-night when your ghost passes over and through us." Demetrios answered: "Rise up and leave this idleness!
"Man, man, you must have been afishing in the mid-pit of hell to net such filth." "I learned that song in Nacumera," said Demetrios, "when I was a prisoner there with Messire de la Foret. It was a favourite song with him." "Ay?" said Bracciolini. He looked at Demetrios very hard, and Bracciolini pursed his lips as if to whistle.
It is a free city and unfriendly to Theodoret. If I survive I will come presently and fight with you for Melicent." "I shall do nothing of the sort," Demetrios equably returned. "Am I the person to permit the man whom I most hate you who have struck me and yet live! to fight alone against some twenty adversaries! Oh, no, I shall remain, since after all, there are only twenty."
But I have learned this assuredly that love endures, that the strong knot which unites my heart and Perion's heart can never be untied. Oh, living is a higher thing than you or I had dreamed! And I have in my heart just pity, poor Demetrios, for you who never found the love of which I must endeavour to be worthy.
Demetrios came without any hindrance into Narenta, a free city. He believed his Emperor must have sent galleys toward Christendom to get tidings of his generalissimo, but in this city of merchants Demetrios heard no report of them.
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.
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