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Late in the afternoon of the next day the preacher was walking in the Via Lepida, near the Monastery of St. Dominic. There was a touch on his mantle. He turned. "Miriam!" he cried, shrinking back. "Why shrinkest thou from me, Joseph?" "Knowest thou not I am under the ban? Look, is not that a Jew yonder who regards us?" "I care not. I have a word to say to thee." "But thou wilt be accursed."
And should we separate, that were made for one another like Maheshwara and the Daughter of the Snow? Nay, we will rather grow together, thou, like the creeper, clinging ever to me, just as thou art doing now, indistinguishable from the tree which is myself. And thou shrinkest from the darkness, but I will be thy darkness and thy night, O thou slender digit of the moon.
A sharp cry of reproach that went to his heart broke from Githa's lips. "Ah! cold and self-heeding, wilt thou send him to bear a peril from which thou shrinkest thyself?"
Him lord Agamemnon saw and upbraided, and spake to him winged words, and said: "Ah me, thou son of wise Tydeus tamer of horses, why shrinkest thou, why gazest thou at the highways of the battle?
But thou shrinkest from the sight of death, and thou believest that Heaven would be displeased because I make myself or am chosen the instrument of Heaven. Well, so let it be, for thy will is mine, and therefore we will tread a gentler path." "And how wilt thou persuade the kings of the earth to place their crowns upon thy head?" I asked, astonished.
A sharp cry of reproach that went to his heart broke from Githa's lips. "Ah! cold and self-heeding, wilt thou send him to bear a peril from which thou shrinkest thyself?"
There is no more grievous and deadly enemy to the soul than thou art to thyself, if thou art not led by the Spirit. Thou must not altogether conceive contempt for thyself, if thou wilt prevail against flesh and blood. Because as yet thou inordinately lovest thyself, therefore thou shrinkest from yielding thyself to the will of others.
Alas! it is even so; the Endymion of thy dreams, as beautiful as even thou thyself in thy purple dawn of womanhood, he from whom thou now shrinkest, yet whom thou dreadest not to meet, is approaching, and bears in his beauty the charm that will darken thy destiny. The appearance of Osborne, unaccompanied, taught this young creature to know the full extent of his influence over her.
So much may a maiden say behind the veil. If thou shrinkest from this, there is yet another way." "And what is that?" asked Theodore. "Dost thou hesitate," said the Veiled Lady, "to pledge thyself to me, by meeting these lips of mine, while the veil yet hides my face? Has not thy heart recognized me?
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