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She was interested in the Marchese Rivardi, but still more so in the priest, Don Aloysius, to whom she felt singularly attracted, partly by his own dignified appearance and manner, and partly by the leaning she herself had towards the Catholic Faith where "Woman" is made sacred in the person of the Holy Virgin, and deemed worthy of making intercession with the Divine.
Rivardi had alternately flushed and paled while she spoke, her keen, incisive probing of his most secret fancies puzzled and vexed him, but with a well-assumed indifference he waved aside her delicately pointed suggestions as though he had scarcely heard them, and said "You have promised to assist? Can you reconcile it to your conscience to let this girl make herself a prisoner for life?"
"And you are one of 'those who see'? " said Rivardi, incredulously. "I do not say I am, that would be too much self-assertion" she answered "But I hope I am! I long to see the world endowed more richly with health and happiness. See how gloriously the sun has risen! In what splendour of light and air we are sailing! If we can do as much as this we ought to be able to do more!"
Rivardi, smarting under a sense of loss and incompetency, went up to her. "Give me the helm!" he said, almost sharply "You have done enough!" She resigned her place to him, smiling at his irritation. "You are sure you are quite rested?" she asked. "Rested!" he echoed the word disdainfully "I should never have rested at all had I been half the man I profess to be! Why do you turn back?
There was something terrific in the complete noiselessness with which it sped through the air, and Rivardi, though now he had a good grip on his nerves, hardly dared allow himself to think of the adventurous business on which he was engaged.
If we could dig deep enough below the sand I think we should find remains of wrecked ships, with the skeletons of antediluvian men and animals, remains of one of the many wasted civilisations " "You do not answer me " interrupted Rivardi with impatience "What of your search for the Brazen City?" She raised her lovely, mysterious eyes and looked full at him. "Do you believe it exists?" she asked.
"That is perfectly true" said the Marchese Rivardi "But la Signora Royal means that the dogma of the Church is in opposition to scientific discovery "
Whatever the mischance which had so swiftly overwhelmed Rivardi and Gaspard, she could not stop now to question, or determine it, she was satisfied that they were not dead, or dying. She went to the steering-gear to take it in hand but though the mysterious mechanism of the air-ship was silently and rapidly throbbing, the ship did not move.
The Marchese Rivardi, thinking along the usual line of masculine logic, had frequently turned over the problem of Morgana's complex character such as it appeared to him, and had almost come to the conclusion that if he only had patience he would succeed in persuading her that wifehood and motherhood were more conducive to a woman's happiness than all the most amazing triumphs of scientific discovery and attainment.
Servants moved about here and there with noiseless rapidity, Don Aloysius was seen constantly pacing up and down the loggia absorbed in anxious thought and prayer, and the Marchese Rivardi came and went on errands of which he alone knew the import.
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