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I was enthusiastic in my admiration of the song and of the splendid voice which had given it utterance, and the Prince seemed almost grateful for the praise accorded him both by Heliobas and myself. The page entered to announce that "the carriage was waiting for mademoiselle," and I prepared to leave.
I was glad to see him recover, yet I was a little afraid. Heliobas pushed a chair gently towards him. "Sit down, Ivan," he said quietly. The Prince obeyed, and covered his face with his hand as though in deep and earnest meditation. I looked on in silence and wonderment. Heliobas spoke not another word, and together we watched the pensive figure in the chair, so absorbed in serious thought.
At first Heliobas appeared to be simply on the defensive, and his agile, skilful movements were all used to parry and ward off the other's grappling eagerness. But as I watched the struggle, myself speechless and powerless, I saw his face change.
Heliobas had sent her hither on purpose to meet him! Of course! how dense he had been not to see through so transparent a scheme before! The clever Chaldean had resolved that he, Theos Alwyn, should somehow be brought to accept his trance as a real experience, so that henceforth his faith in "things unseen and eternal" might be assured.
Alwyn, smiled at the droll inapplicability of this comparison, and Heliobas cheerfully continued "I am on the wing just now, bound for Mexico. I had business in London, and arrived here two days since, two days more will see me again en voyage.
Yet, on pondering the matter in my mind, I remembered that during my aerial journey suns and moons had been no more to me than flowers strewn on a meadow. I now regretted that I had not sought to know something of those two fair luminaries which light and warm our earth. Heliobas, after watching my face intently, resumed: "You cannot guess the reason of your omission? I will tell you.
In brief, Truth, according to the world, is simply whatever the world is pleased to consider as Truth for the time being. 'Tis a somewhat slight thing to stake one's immortal destinies upon!" Hilarion raised one of Alwyn's cold, pulseless hands it was stiff, and white as marble. "I suppose," he said, "there is no doubt of his returning hither?" "None whatever," answered Heliobas decisively.
Suddenly I bethought myself of the three dreams that had visited me, and a kind of nervous dread came upon me. This Heliobas, was I right after all in coming to consult him? Was he not perhaps a mere charlatan? and might not his experiments upon me prove fruitless, and possibly fatal? An idea seized me that I would escape while there was yet time.
Heliobas reclined in his easy-chair, glancing up and down the columns of the Figaro; and the Prince still sat at the piano, moving his fingers idly up and down the keys without playing. The little page entered with a letter on a silver salver. It was for his master. Heliobas read it quickly, and rose, saying: "I must leave you to entertain yourselves for ten minutes while I answer this letter.
Petersburg; of the pranks he had played in the Florentine Carnival; of his journey to the American States, and his narrow escape from the matrimonial clutches of a Boston heiress. Heliobas listened to him with a sort of indulgent kindness, only smiling now and then at the preposterous puns the young man would insist on making at every opportunity that presented itself.
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