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Updated: May 21, 2025
"It must be happy there!" said Gnulemah, looking cityward. "So many Balders and Gnulemahs!" "Why happy?" asked the man of the world, with a faint smile. "We are only two, and have known each other to-day and yesterday. But they, you said, are as many as the stars, and have been together many yesterdays." Such was the woman's unclinched argument, leaving her listener to draw the inference.
All this was conveyed to Balder's apprehension, not by words, but by some subtile expressiveness of eye and gesture. Gnulemah could give voiceless utterances in a manner pregnant and felicitous almost beyond belief. "I meet also a beautiful maiden in the looking-glass," she added; "her face and motion are always the same as my own.
I came here unawares, and, but for this ring, should not have known that we had met before." "I lie under your suspicion on more accounts than one," observed Manetho, glancing in the other's face. "I have assumed your uncle's name, and the disposal of his property; and I have concealed his death; but you shall be satisfied on all points. The child, too, Gnulemah!
My heart burned, and the smoke of its fire enveloped bride and groom, fouling his yellow beard, and smirching her silvery veil; shutting out heaven from their prayers, and blackening their path before them. They neither felt nor knew. They kissed, I saw their lips meet, as Balder and Gnulemah to-day. Then I covered my face and seemed to be in prayer!
And heavily as he was weighted in the new race, he would not be disheartened. Unuttered resolves brightened his eyes and made his courage high. Before beginning breakfast, he returned to the window and drank again of the divine blue and green. From the branch of a near tree the hoopoe startled him and made him color. Was the bird an emissary from Gnulemah?
Gnulemah, being used to daily communion with things mysterious to her understanding, would scarcely have altered her demeanor had Balder turned out to be a genie! But the first step towards fixing the relations between them was already taken. She rose to her feet suddenly, yet easily as a startled serpent rears erect its body. Vivid emotion lightened in her face.
The little lord chamberlain fluttered down from his lofty perch and hovered between the two faces, his penetrating note sounding like a warning, Gnulemah drew back, and a swift blush let fall its rosy veil from the golden gleam of her jewelled forehead-band to below the head of the serpent which twisted round her neck. One parting look she gave Balder, pregnant of new wonder, fear, and joy.
Some hidden agency had forced the two ever farther asunder. Moreover, Gnulemah developed rapidly, while Nurse underwent a process of gradual congealment, her wits and emotions became torpid. Besides this, she was the victim of disfigurement, physical as well as spiritual; while Gnulemah, both naturally and by training, was sensitive to beauty and ugliness.
Gnulemah was in a frolicsome humor, the reaction of her foregoing solemnity. But Balder, who deemed this hour the gravest of his life, was taken aback by her unseasonable gayety. Casting about for means to sober her, an ungracious thing for a lover to do! he hit upon the gold beetle. "Dead; the poor little beetle! Do you know what death is, Gnulemah?" "It is what makes life.
In short, Gnulemah was in his opinion right-minded, exactly in proportion as she should convict him of being in the wrong. Balder resigned the helm of his vessel, laden as she was with the fruits of years of thought and speculation, at the critical moment of her voyage, resigned her to the guidance of a woman's unreasoning intuition.
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