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So she had not turned round, but had hurried on to reach her destination as soon as possible; and now she was standing before the little house in the garden. Before opening the door she once more considered in what way she could prepare Selene and tell her terrible news, and, as all that happened stood vividly before her mind's eye, she began to weep once more.
Before going to bed she had tried with all the fervency and eloquence of which she was mistress, to persuade, entreat, and implore the heedless girl to refuse as positively as she herself had refused to take any part in the processions; but Arsinoe had at first repulsed her crossly, and finally had defiantly declared that means might yet very likely be found, and that what her father permitted, Selene had no right to interfere in, still less to forbid.
"Not thanks, but love a little love is all I ask." "I try to love all men," replied the girl, "and so I love you because you have shown me very much kindness." "Selene, Selene!" he exclaimed in joyful triumph. He threw himself again at her feet and passionately seized her right hand; but hardly had he taken it in his own when Mary, scarlet with agitation, rushed into the room.
"Then only try for once to do some one a pleasure with sincere and heartfelt love, and you will see how much good it does one, how it opens the heart and turns every trouble to a pleasure. Is it not true Mary, we shall he sincerely obliged to Selene if only she will not spoil the pleasure we have had in working for her?"
"I will lead you to the loving Father in Heaven who cares for us all as if we were His children; but not now you must rest and neither talk nor hear of anything that can excite your fevered blood. Now I will rearrange the pillow under your head. Mary will wet a fresh compress and then you must try to sleep." "I cannot," replied Selene, while Hannah shook her pillows and arranged them carefully.
"Because you are not yet quite awake," laughed the steward. "How did this ivy-leaf get into your hair?" Arsinoe colored, put her hand to the spot indicated by her father, and said reluctantly: "Out of some bough or another, but now go that I may get up." "In a minute tell me how did you find Selene?" "Not so very bad but I will tell you all about that afterwards. Now I want to be alone."
And yet Selene, whose youth for she was but nineteen needed repose and to whom the evening with the reprieve of sleep brought more pleasure than the morning with its load of cares and labor, sat by the three-branched lamp and watched, and tormented herself more and more as it grew later and later, at her father's long absence.
"But, Selene, mama can't afford nothing like that." Pink swam up into Miss Coblenz's face, and above the sheer-white collar there was a little beating movement at the throat, as if something were fluttering within. "I I'd just as soon not get married as as not to have it like other girls." "But, Selene "
They think only tailors and old-clothes men and ." "Selene!" "Well, they do. You you're all right, mama, as up to date as any of them, but how do you think a girl feels, with gramaw always harping right in front of everybody the way granpa was a revolutionist and was hustled off barefooted to Siberia like a tramp? And the way she was cooking black beans when my uncle died.
"Not now," begged Arsinoe. "I am no longer happy since we came in here. I cannot help thinking of poor Selene." "I have not a word to say against that," replied Pollux submissively. "Then when waiting is over may I have my reward?" "No, no, now, at once," cried Arsinoe throwing herself on his breast, and then she hurried towards the house.
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