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Updated: June 9, 2025
Intensely grateful for the affectionate care bestowed upon her, she acquiesced in what she understood to be the methods of possible cure for the ruined man to whom she had bound her life. "If he gets well quite, quite well" she said, lifting her splendid dark eyes to Morgana's blue as "love-in-a-mist" "I will go away and give him to you!"
Manella replied with sudden sharpness "No! I would not like you to see him! He would either hate you or love you!" The grey-blue lightning flash glittered in Morgana's eyes. "You ARE a curious girl!" she said, slowly "You might be a tragic actress and make your fortune on the stage, with that voice and that look! And yet you stay here as 'help' in a Sanatorium! Well!
And now, installed in her own sumptuously fitted rooms in the Palazzo d'Oro, Morgana's Sicilian paradise, she almost forgot there was such a thing as poverty, or the sordid business of "making both ends meet."
Soon, very soon, the dainty plot of earth, looking no more than a gay flower-bed, where Morgana's palazzo was situated, appeared below and then, acting on instructions, Gaspard opened the compartments at either end of the vessel.
Morgana's eyes flashed over them all with a bright, half-laughing tolerance. "I thank you, my friends!" she said "You have done well the work I entrusted you to do under the guidance of the Marchese Rivardi, and you can now judge for yourselves the result It mystifies you I can see!
And she indicated by a gesture the next room where Roger Seaton lay. A cold horror ran through Morgana's blood. HIS work! the widespread ruin of villages and townships, the devastation of a vast tract of country the deaths of hundreds of men, women and little children HIS work? Could it be possible? She stood transfixed, while Manella went on
Yes!"... Manella spoke with a thrill of exultation in her voice, and she caught Morgana's hand and kissed it fondly "His wife! It is the only way I can be his slave-woman! Let me marry him while he knows nothing, so that I may have the right to wait upon him and care for him! He shall never know! For if he comes to himself again please God he will! as soon as that happens I will go away at once.
And, according to its woman-designer's command, they lowered it gently till it was, so to say, almost immersed in the torrent and covered with spray indeed Morgana's light figure itself at the prow looked like a fair spirit risen from the waters rather than any form of flesh and blood, so wreathed and transfigured it was by the dust of the ceaseless foam.
However this may be, let us not imagine that in the rush of commerce and the marvels of science the world is left empty of love! Love is still the strongest force in nature!" Morgana's eyes flashed up, then drooped under their white lids fringed with gold. "You think so?" she murmured "To me, love leads nowhere!" "Except to Heaven!" said Aloysius. There followed a silence.
When Roger Seaton confessed to the girl Manella that his real desire was to bend and subdue Morgana's intellectuality to his own, he spoke the truth, not only for himself but for all men. Absolutely disinterested love for a brilliantly endowed woman would be difficult to find in any male nature, men love what is inferior to themselves, not superior.
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