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Updated: June 4, 2025
Was there a stranger, whom now she would sweep with a casual glance, who still had the power to subdue her proud maidenhood, overcome the reserve which seemed to reach as high as heaven, and lay a gentle yet resistless grasp, not only on her sacred form, but on her very soul? Even the thought made her tremble with a vague yet delicious dread.
I passed in review my maidenhood, my marriage, and my love, and told myself that the darkest days of my loneliness in London had hitherto been relieved by one bright hope. I had only to live on and Martin would come back to me. But now I was utterly alone, I was in the presence of nothingness. The sanctuary within me where Martin had lived was only a cemetery of the soul. "Why? Why? Why?"
An old man, on a summer day, sits on a hill-top, or on the observatory of his house, and sees the sun's light pass from one object to another connected with the events of his past life, as the school-house, the place where his wife lived in her maidenhood, its setting beams falling on the churchyard.
She recognized the value of its social import, but even at fifteen and sixteen she was superior to it. She was superior to her superiors and to the specimens of maidenhood supposed to be perfect socially who gathered about to hear her talk, to hear her sing, declaim, or imitate.
It was an admirable scheme, and had Arran not become a lunatic, had Elizabeth not been "that imperial votaress" vowed to eternal maidenhood, their bridal, with the consequent loss of the Scottish throne by Mary, would have been the most fortunate of all possible events.
Naturally, being a matron, and of the age of thirty-odd years, she put on some airs with her younger friend, still in the chrysalis of maidenhood. Sometimes, in a sweet sort of a way, she almost domineered over her.
The bride, in her brand-new stuff gown, with a bonnet that recalled the bridal wreath only just laid aside, was also certain to be of a general universal type with the broad hips, wide waist, muscular limbs, and the melting sweetness of lips and eyes that only abundant health and a rich animalism of nature bring to maidenhood.
At the same moment she felt a light touch on her shoulder, and drawing back to escape the disturbing eloquence of his eyes, she discovered the presence of his encircling arm. The discovery brought her to her feet flushed, palpitating, aquiver with anger at this first shadow of insult to her maidenhood. "Will you take me in again, please?" she said quietly, and the request savoured of command.
Jim drew his watch again, mopped his brow, and gazed at Mary's serene face with wonder. "Say, Kiddo, you're immense you're as cool as a cucumber!" "Of course. Why not? It's my day of joy and perfect peace the day I've dreamed of since the dawn of maidenhood. I'm marrying the man of my choice the one man God made for me of all men on earth. I know this I'm content."
Canst thou look at me as happily and as innocently, as thou couldst before this Persian came to us?" The girl raised her eyes at once with a joyful smile; then Rhodopis clasped her to her bosom, kissed her and continued: "Since thou wert a little child my constant effort has been to train thee to a noble maidenhood and guard thee from the approach of love.
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