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I think Silvia must have been conscious of it, even though the room was dark, for she came to me quickly. "I wish I could give you everything anything you want, Silvia." "You have, Lucien. The things that no money could buy love and protection." Well, maybe I had. I had surely given her protection from the Polydores, though she didn't know to what extent.
In early manhood he had been prætor or prefect of the city, being probably the most eminent of all its citizens in wealth and rank. But his mother St. Silvia, a woman of fervent piety, had educated him with great care. He turned from the secular to the religious life, following perhaps her example, since on the death of his father she became a nun.
"Very few, in fact, compared to the number of black flies, sand fleas, and jiggers. However, you'll find more discomfort from the poison ivy, I imagine." "Lucien," began Silvia in lament. "Never mind!" I hastened to console, "you are out of the woods now, and you won't have to go in again. I presume they have an antidote up at the house.
This first of all English love songs deserves to rank with Valentine's description of Silvia: Why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold. Two Gentlemen of Verona, II, 4. See The History of Language, p. 103.
'Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio; for Valentine, I need not bid him do so. They were here interrupted by the entrance of Proteus, and Valentine introduced him to Silvia, saying: 'Sweet lady, entertain him to be my fellow-servant to your ladyship. When Valentine and Proteus had ended their visit, and were alone together, Valentine said: 'Now tell me how all does from whence you came?
'If your Majesty will allow me, said Silvia, coming forward, 'I can tell you what comes next. And she whispered a few words in his ear. 'Ah! of course of course! exclaimed the King, looking much relieved. 'I have had hardly any time to study my part; and I hope, he added, turning to the audience, 'that you will excuse me. 'Go it, old boy! sang out somebody from the gallery.
After mass, then, and the little work her mother permitted the girl to do for health's sake, Silvia sat alone by her window and looked out on the splendor which her eyes alone could appreciate.
The position of Callidora, loved in her disguise by the two girls, recalls that of many pastoral heroines before and since Daniel's Silvia, particularly perhaps of the courtly Rosalind loved by the Arcadian Phoebe. The chivalric admixture is, as usual, traceable to Sidney, and the duel finds of course an obvious parallel in Twelfth Night.
This made him also anxious to pass all the time he could with his dear Silvia, and, therefore, he began going out to them for more of the daytime, and then he would sleep the night in the woods also as he had done that night; and so he passed several weeks, only returning to his house occasionally to get himself a fresh provision of food.
Before the enticing pastime of transformation was begun, however, Silvia was swiftly snatched from the contaminating midst and borne away over the ramparts. Thereafter I haunted the alley, hoping for another glimpse of the little picture girl on the wall. At last I attained my desire. One Saturday afternoon I saw her coming, alone, down a long rosebush bordered path. A thrill ran through me.
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