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Updated: June 25, 2025
With straining necks, tossed manes, and foam flying from their nostrils, Sah-luma's fiery coursers dashed onward at almost lightning speed, and the journey became a wild, headstrong rush through the dividing air a rush toward some voluptuous end, dimly discerned, yet indefinite! At last they stopped.
As they left the garden the night fell, or appeared to fall, with almost startling suddenness, and at the same time, in swift defiance of the darkness, Sah-luma's palace was illuminated from end to end by thousands of colored lamps, all apparently lit at once by a single flash of electricity.
I should be inclined to ask you to consider this matter more seriously, and from the strictly common- sense point of view, did I not know that for you to undertake a course of useful meditation while you remain is Sah-luma's companionship would be impossible, . . quite impossible!
A clammy dew broke out on his forehead, he saw the blue skies, the huge buildings in the Square, the Obelisk, the fountains, the trees, all whirling round him in a wild dance of the dizziest distraction, ... when Sah-luma's rich voice close to his ear recalled his wandering senses: "Why, man, art thou drunk or mad?" and the Laureate's face expressed a kind of sarcastic astonishment, "What a fool thou hast made of thyself, good comrade! ... By my soul, how shall thy condition be explained to these open-mouthed starers below!
No wonder, he thought, that Sah-luma's eyes darkened with passions as they dwelt on her! ... and no wonder that he, like Sah-luma, was content to be gently but surely drawn within the glittering web of her magic spell a spell fatal, yet too bewilderingly sweet for human strength to fight against.
"Hence.. hence, Irenya!" he exclaimed "Escape temptation quickly while thou mayest! Support thy virgin pride in peace! ... thou shalt never say again Sah-luma's kisses are unwelcome! The Poet's touch shall never wrong or sanctify thy name! thou art safe from me as pillared icicles in everlasting snow!
"Let the women enter!" he commanded "Speak but Sah-luma's name and they will gather like waves rising to the moon, but bid them be silent as they come, lest they disturb thoughts more lasting than their loveliness." This with a significant glance toward the Laureate, who, sunk in his ivory chair, seemed rapt in meditation.
Like an enraged Queen she stood, one white, jewelled arm stretched forth menacingly, her bosom heaving, and her face aflame with wrath, but Theos, leaning against Sah-luma's couch, heard her with as much impassiveness as though her threatening voice were but the sound of an idle wind.
And as the eager, enthusiastic words came from his lips, he beheld Sah-luma's beautiful countenance brighten more and more, till it appeared mysteriously transfigured into a majestic Angel-face that for one brief moment startled him by the divine tenderness of its compassionate smile!
For once Sah-luma's appearance created no diversion, he was pushed and knocked about as unceremoniously as if he were the commonest citizen of them all, He seemed carelessly surprised at this, but nevertheless took his hustling very good humoredly, and, keeping his shoulders well squared forced his way with Theos by slow degrees through the serried ranks of people, many of whom, roused to a sort of frenzy threw themselves in front of the advancing horses of the guard, and seizing the reins held on to these like grim death, reckless of all danger.
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