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The look of frantic horror passed slowly out of her eyes, giving way to acute misery as he talked, and as his personality once more began to dominate her own. But it was not yet over. "But the volors," she cried, "the volors! That is deliberate; that is not the work of the mob." "My darling, it is no more deliberate than the other. We are all human, we are all immature.
In spite of all that he had seen in his journeys, he still found an extraordinary fascination in watching the scene at Queenstown, as the great Olympic-line volors, each carrying three hundred passengers, one by one made ready and left. He himself was to leave in the last of the four.
There was not a building left in Rome; the entire place, Leonine City, Trastevere, suburbs everything was gone; for the volors, poised at an immense height, had parcelled out the City beneath them with extreme care, before beginning to drop the explosives; and five minutes after the first roar from beneath and the first burst of smoke and flying fragments, the thing was finished.
So he had removed the trams, the volors, the laboratories, the manufactories saying that there was plenty of room for them outside Rome and had allowed them to be planted in the suburbs: in their place he had raised shrines, religious houses and Calvaries. Then he had attended further to the souls of his subjects.
"Each Government, it is proposed, should take part in the final scene, for it is something of a symbolic action; and for this purpose it is thought well that each of the three Departments of the World should depute volors, to the number of the constituting States, one hundred and twenty-two all told, to set about the business.
That musical cry, he told himself, was the voice of one of the European line of volors announcing its arrival in the capital of Great Britain. "Until our Lord comes back," he thought to himself; and for an instant the old misery stabbed at his heart.
Histories related how the improvements of the Italian government had gradually dropped out of use as soon as the city, eighty years before, had been given her independence; the trains ceased to run; volors were not allowed to enter the walls; the new buildings, permitted to remain, had been converted to ecclesiastical use; the Quirinal became the offices of the "Red Pope"; the embassies, huge seminaries; even the Vatican itself, with the exception of the upper floor, had become the abode of the Sacred College, who surrounded the Supreme Pontiff as stars their sun.
Once he had been moved in spite of himself, as one of the huge German volors had passed in the night, a blaze of ghostly lights and gilding, resembling a huge moth with antennae of electric light, and the two ships had saluted one another through half a league of silent air, with a pathetic cry as of two strange night-birds who have no leisure to pause.
"Do you mean from Europe?" "I mean from the whole world. You see the East is scarcely three days away by the fast volors; so even the Chinese " "Do you mean that China and Japan send representatives?" "Certainly. Japan is Christian of course, anyhow; and China has at least one or two Christian princes of the blood." "By the way, what about Russia?" "Well, what about it?" "Is it Catholic?"
These Catholics had shown themselves the avowed enemies of society; very well, then society must defend itself, at least this once. Man was still human. And Oliver had listened and said nothing. As he passed in one of the Government volors over London on his way home, he had caught more than one glimpse of what was proceeding beneath him.
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