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But that must now be over. They will seek other amusements, whether with Heliodora or Thais I care not. If the woman had only gone before! When she caught young Caesarion " "Stay, child," her uncle interrupted reprovingly. "I know how much she would rejoice if Antyllus had never brought the boy to her house." "Now because the poor deluded lad's infatuation alarms her." "No, from his first visit.
He felt something chafe and grow hot within him, and recalled the days when he, and not Heliodora, had indulged contempt to his mind a much more natural posture of affairs, The animal that is in every man had begun to stir; it urged him to master and crush and tame this woman, whom, indeed, he held rather in hate than in any semblance of love.
She was gentle, meek, pious; in everything the exquisite antithesis of such a woman as Heliodora. Out of very humility she allowed herself to believe that Basil had ceased to love her. How persuade her, against the pure loyalty of her heart, that he had even plotted her surrender to an unknown fate? What proof of that could he devise?
Nay, who knows how or why! They have nothing to do but talk, and these victories of the Goth have set up such a Greek cackle as was never heard since Helen ran away to Troy, and, talking of Greek, I bear a letter for you from Heliodora. Basil, who had been listening gravely, started at this name and uttered an idle laugh. From a wallet hanging at his girdle, Marcian drew forth the missive.
Yet if one were found who could persuade him that the cause of the Greeks is hopeless that, by holding out to the end, he will merely lose all, whereas, if he came to terms Marcian was watching Heliodora's face. He paused. Their eyes met for an instant. 'Who can be assured, asked Heliodora thoughtfully, 'that Totila will triumph? They say the Patricius will come again. 'Too late.
I can answer for it he is not there very often; the wiser man he. 'Slap her face, Galla, cried Vivian. 'At her! She will run before you. Galla moved as if to act upon this advice, but the voice of Heliodora, peremptory, resonant, checked her step. 'None of that! Get you gone, both of you, and try conclusions if you will in the open street. Off! Pack!
Heliodora stood in a strange attitude, her arms thrown back, her body leaning forward much like some fierce and beautiful animal watching the moment to spring. 'Do you believe what that harlot said? she asked in a thick voice. 'Enough of it to understand my folly in hoping to learn anything through you. Let us part, and think of each other no more.
Katharina pressed her friend to come at once to her mother's house, for she felt certain that they were plague-stricken, and how could they procure a bath in a house full of soldiers? Heliodora could not and must not remain with Martina in this condition, and the senator's wife could follow her next day. Her mother, she added, would be delighted to welcome so dear a guest.
'Nevertheless it is not I, persisted the other gravely. 'Be it so, said Heliodora. 'And in all this, my good Marcian, what part have I? How does it regard me? What do you seek of me? Once more the man seemed overcome with confusion. 'Indeed I scarce know, he murmured. 'I hardly dare to think what was in my mind when I sought you.
And lo! he was returning already; in the bright mirror she could see Heliodora clasped in her lover's arms; and now it was like a picture: A stranger not the bishop of Memphis laid her hand in his and blessed their union before the altar in a vast and magnificent cathedral.
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