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Rather would I see you dead, prince Aziel, then lured down to hell by the wiles of yonder witch." Then before Aziel could answer he turned and left him. As Issachar went to his own chamber full of bitterness and indignation, he passed the door of Elissa's apartments, and came face to face with Metem issuing from them. "Will the woman live?" he asked of him. "Be comforted, worthy Issachar.
Meanwhile Aeneas and his fleet in unwavering track now held mid passage, and cleft the waves that blackened under the North, looking back on the city that even now gleams with hapless Elissa's funeral flame. Why the broad blaze is lit lies unknown; but the bitter pain of a great love trampled, and the knowledge of what woman can do in madness, draw the Teucrians' hearts to gloomy guesses.
Little of Elissa's company shall you have if I can help it; she is too good for a cross-bred savage, and if before I go from these barbarian lands I can set a drop of medicine in your wine, or an arrow in your gizzard, upon the word of Metem the Phoenician, it shall be done, king Ithobal."
But before it died away a voice at the far end of the hall called out: "Perchance the lady does not know that yonder in Egypt, and in Jerusalem also, prince Aziel is named the Ever-living." Now it was Elissa's turn to be overcome. "Nay, I knew it not," she said; "how should I know it? I spoke of that Dweller in the heavens whom I worship "
With an exclamation, Metem knelt beside her, and, not heeding her groans of pain, drew the dart through the pierced palm. Then he tore a strip of linen from his robe, and knotting it round Elissa's wrist, he took a broken stick that lay near and twisted the linen till it almost cut into her flesh. "Now, Prince," he said, "suck the wound, for I have no breath for it.
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