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It was a wrong idea, of course, but the trifling fact of his having taken up his abode in a more 'aristocratic' part of the metropolis, while Lotys had still remained in the 'quarter of the poor, was sufficient to give it ground in the minds of the ignorant, who are always more or less suspicious of even their best friends.
"My message is from Lotys!" he said deliberately; "And it must be delivered to the King in person!" Vaguely alarmed, Sir Roger recoiled a step. "You bring ill news?" he whispered. "I do not know whether it will prove ill or well;" answered Zouche wearily; "But such news as I have, must be told to his Majesty alone."
As she concluded with these words, she seemed to grow taller, nobler, more inspired and commanding, and while the applause was yet shaking the rafters of the hall, she left the platform. Shouts of "Lotys! Lotys!" rang out again and again with passionate bursts of cheering, and in response to it she came back, and by a slight gesture commanded silence.
Even among some of the highest and wealthiest classes of society this peculiar appellation of "Lotys," carrying no surname with it, and spoken at haphazard had the effect of causing a sudden silence, and the interchange of questioning looks among those who heard it, and who, without knowing who she was, or what her aims in life really were, voted her "dangerous."
You knew the littleness of worldly ambition! You knew that there is only one thing worth living and dying for, and that is Love! Your heart was all love, my Lotys! Deprived of love for yourself, you gave all you had to those who needed it, and when you found my love for you might do me harm in the People's honour, you sacrificed your life! Alas, my Lotys!
"Who, and what is this woman?" she went on; "Why was it given to her to save the King's life, while you stood by? Why was she brought to the Palace to be attended like some princess, and then taken away secretly before I could see her? Lotys is her name I know it by heart!" Like twinkling stars, the jewels in her lace scintillated with the quick panting of her breath.
To see you weep is the only thing that could possibly unman me, and make even 'Pasquin Leroy' lose his nerve!" He approached her, and sought to take her hand, but she turned away from him, and he saw her bosom heave with a passion of repressed weeping. "Lotys!" he then said, with exceeding gentleness; "What is this? Why are you unhappy?
Here she extended her hand. Sir Roger bowed low over it, and kissed its delicate smoothness with careful coldness. As she withdrew it again, she said in a low dreamy, half questioning tone: "The woman's name is Lotys?" Silently Sir Roger bent his head in assent. "A man's love leads only one way to one woman!
"There are many people who 'think' all their lives and 'do' nothing!" said Axel Regor languidly. "True, my friend! But their thought may lead, while, they themselves remain passive," joined in Pasquin Leroy sotto-voce; "It is not at all impossible that if Lotys bade these five thousand here assembled burn down the citadel, it would be done before daybreak!"
"Nevertheless, they and their yellow metal are the raw material, which Genius may as well use to pave its way through life," said Zegota. "Lotys, you are too much of an idealist!" "Idealist! And you call yourself a realist, poor child!" said Lotys with a laugh; "I tell you I would sooner starve than accept favour or assistance from the merely rich!"
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