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The pestilence was at its height when Gervase Helwyse appeared in Province House. There were none to stay him now, and he climbed the stairs, peering from room to room, until he entered a darkened chamber, where something stirred feebly under a silken coverlet and a faint voice begged for water. Helwyse tore apart the curtains and exclaimed, "Fie!
"Pour it down the villain's throat!" cried the Virginian fiercely. "Turn him out of the house!" cried Captain Langford, seizing Jervase Helwyse so roughly by the shoulder that the sacramental cup was overturned, and its contents sprinkled upon Lady Eleanore's mantle. "Whether knave, fool, or Bedlamite, it is intolerable that the fellow should go at large."
"Wretched lunatic, what do you seek here?" exclaimed Shute, extending his cane to guard himself from contact. "There is nothing here but Death. Back or you will meet him!" "Death will not touch me, the banner-bearer of the pestilence!" cried Jervase Helwyse, shaking the red flag aloft.
Keep your fingers in his throat; the other hand creeps warily downwards. Now hurl him up, over! But with what an ugly gulp the black water swallowed his body! Was it not well done? Tempted to covet imaginary wickedness, Helwyse was ripe for real crime, and who so worthy to suffer as the tempter? He leaned panting against taffrail. His predominant feeling was that he had been ensnared.
MacGentle's quiet little office: himself more venerable by a year than when we saw him last in his chair: opposite him, Dr. Balder Helwyse. The latter wears a thick yellow beard about six inches in length, is subdued in dress and manner, and his smile, though genial, has something of the sadness of autumn sunshine. The two have been conversing earnestly, and now there is a short silence.
When the sun had made himself thoroughly at home on earth and in heaven, Helwyse went to his state-room, feeling unclean from the soul outwards. While making his toilet, he took care to leave the window-blind up, that he might at any time see the blue sky and water, and the bright shore, with its foliage and occasional houses.
He pressed his slender hands together with an impulse of sympathy. "Poor fellow!" he whispered, "how he has suffered! How the horror of blood-guiltiness must have tortured him! The noble Helwyse hair, all gone! Too dear a price to pay for the mere sacrifice of a human life! And pain and all might have been spared him, poor fellow! poor fellow!"
He is a monster likewise; say since grotesqueness is in vogue the heart of Lucifer burning beneath the cool brain of a Grecian sage. The symbolism is not inapt, since Helwyse, while afflicted with pride and ambition as abstract as boundless, had, at the same time, a logical, fearless brain, and keen delight in beauty.
"Did he mean insensibly to initiate her into the knowledge of absolute sin?" "Such would be his purpose, such would be his purpose. To make her a devil, without the chance of knowing it possible to be anything else!" "He was a fool," growled Helwyse. "The plan is folly, impracticable in twenty ways. A soul cannot be so influenced. Devils are not made by education.
An awe of the woman whose innate force could command a nature like this priest's seemed to give his passion for her a more vigorous fibre. The two men were now left alone to come to what understanding they might. Manetho rose to his feet, obliquely eying Helwyse, and spoke with the manner and tone of true humility, "You have seen me in my weakness. I am but a broken man, Balder Helwyse."
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