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The distance obscured detail, but it looked massively built, though not after the modern style. As Helwise gazed, sharpening his eyes to discern more clearly, he saw a figure moving across the lawn directly towards him. Advancing to the brink of the cliff, it there paused and seemed to return his glance. Helwyse could not tell whether it were man or woman. Had the river only been narrower!
Helwyse, having begun the one hundredth page, was too incurious to find out who was his next-door neighbor on the ninety-ninth, ensued unparalleled adventures, and this account of them. Our present purpose, by the reader's leave, and in his company, is to violate Doctor Hiero Glyphic's retirement, as he lies asleep in bed.
"A little tired this morning, I believe; I never was so strong a man as you, Helwyse. I think I must have passed a bad night. I remember dreaming I was an old man, an old man with white hair, Helwyse." "Were you glad to wake up again?" asked the young man, meeting the elder's faded eyes. "I hardly know whether I'm quite awake yet.
Why were there no such women now? not warped, imperfect, only half alive in body and spirit; but charged from the heart outwards with pure divine vitality, natures vivid as fire, yet by strength serene! "Why did not I live when she lived, to marry her?" muttered Helwyse in a dream. "A woman whose infinite variety age could not alter nor custom stale! A true wife would have kept me from error.
The probability was that young Helwyse would ultimately appear at his uncle's house, and would there be ensnared in the seductive meshes of Manetho's web. The ring was most likely at the bottom of the Sound. So, smiling his subtle feminine smile, the Egyptian fell asleep, to dream of the cordial welcome he would give his expected guest.
The engine was a beautiful combination, so polished, effective, and logical; like the minds of some philosophers, moving with superhuman regularity and power, but lifeless! Helwyse watched it long, till finally its monotony wearied him. It was doing admirable work, but it never swerved from its course at the call of sentiment or emotion. Its travesty of life was repulsive.
He sat back in his low arm-chair, his unsubstantial face turned meditatively towards the Magdalen, his hands brought together to support his delicate chin. Helwyse, apprehending that the vein might at last bring the dreamer down to the present day, encouraged him to follow it.
Folly and delusion! But Helwyse was only Helwyse, careering through pitchy darkness, on a viewless sea, with a plausible voice at his ear insinuating villanous thoughts with an air of devilish good-fellowship! The "Empire State" was at this moment four and a half miles northeast of the schooner whose bowsprit she was destined to carry away.
"That's kindly spoken!" exclaimed Helwyse, heartily; and, opening his strong white hand, he took the narrow brown one into its grasp. He had not been prepared for so friendly a profession. "When I have seen your soul tied to hers in a knot that even death may not loosen, and if it be permitted me to tie the knot, I shall have drained the cup of earthly happiness!"
One drawback to crime seems to be its insufficiency to itself. It creates a craving which needs must be fed. The demon returns, demanding a fresh task; and he returns again forever! Helwyse, therefore, plunged into the midst of the uproar consequent on the collision, and tried to absorb the common excitement, to identify himself with other men; no longer to be apart from them and above them.
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