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Midsummer morn at lark-song, keep tryst beside the palace gate. "As travellers on the desert, spent and worn, see far across the sand the palm-tree's green that marks life-giving wells, so Ederyn hailed this summons to the king. The soul-consuming thirst that long had urged him on grew fiercer as the well of consummation came in sight.
Not so with the hindmost; they were near the dreaded place from which the army would descend; ahead of them was a deliberate host; within them, soul-consuming fear and panic. The rear rushed, the forward ranks walked, and the center caught between was jammed into a compact mass. Neither halt nor escape was possible.
I had been doing my best for some months to regard it as soul-consuming, but without any real success. "Well," I answered. It bored me, her being there. I wanted to be alone. "You don't seem overjoyed to see me. What's the matter with you? What's happened?" I laughed. "Vane's bolted and taken the week's money with him." "The beast!" she said. "I knew he was that sort.
She drank in his words with a soul-consuming thirst The proof! That was what she required. Iredale went on with grave gentleness. "The proof is in here." He moved to the bookcase and opened a secret recess in the back of it, "In this cupboard." He produced a pile of books and brought them to the table. Picking out one he opened it at the date of Grey's death. It was a diary.
He had heard of puppy love and he scorned it, but this was not that kind, he told himself; his was an epic adoration, a full-grown, deathless man's affection such as comes to none but the favored of the gods and then but once in a lifetime. The reason was patent it lay in the fact that the object of his soul-consuming worship was not an ordinary woman.
I then detailed to him some of the strange events which were agitating the mind of the outside world. From the very first he was interested: later on that interest grew into a passion, a greedy soul-consuming quest after the truth, the intensity of which was such at last as to move me even to pity. I may as well here restate the facts as I communicated them to Zaleski.
Before a man can become Senior Wrangler he must have burnt, not only the midnight oil, but some of the very fibre of his soul. Conspicuous positions in the literary and scientific world are less the reward of genius than of laborious, soul-consuming toil. The great chemist will work sixteen hours out of twenty-four.
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