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The features of the face were undeclared, save the brow and eyes; and these were large, grand, and full of absolute wisdom and tranquil consciousness of power. I could have gazed on this wonderful piece of Zara's handiwork for hours, but Heliobas called to the Armenian servants, who stood near the door awaiting orders, and commanded them to break it down.
She had caught sight of Zara's figure on the landing above, and her vengeful spirit desired to cause trouble, even at a cost to herself. Zara had been perfectly ready, all but her hat, and had hurried exceedingly to be in time, and thus had not been five minutes after her husband. "Tristram!" wailed Laura, and, putting up her hands, placed them on his shoulders.
"I've had to learn that it doesn't pay to think a man's guilty because he's scared and confused. It's an old theory that innocence shows in a prisoner's eyes, and it's very pretty only it isn't true." "Well, even so, they might not have run away if it hadn't happened that that was the day Zara's father was arrested.
"Is that your father's name, Zara? Why didn't you tell us?" "He told me not to," said Zara, nervously. "Zara's father had one bad fault; he wasn't at all ready to trust people," Holmes went on, easily. "He didn't even trust me as he should have done, and he's been positively insulting to Weeks. It's made a lot of trouble for him." He looked at his watch, then turned to the servant.
Amy's voice died away in a last "Good-bye!" and she rushed from the piano, with pale face and trembling lips, gasping out: "What has happened? What is the matter?" "She has been stunned by a lightning-flash," I said, trying to speak calmly, while I loosened Zara's dress and sprinkled her forehead with eau-de-Cologne from a scent-bottle Mrs. Challoner had handed to me.
I go back this far not to weary you, but that you may understand what forces in race had to do with the boy's character. The daughter again of this pair became an artist and a dancer, and being a highly educated, as well as a superbly beautiful woman a woman with all Zara's charm and infinitely more chiseled features she won the devoted love of the Emperor of the country in which they lived.
If in truth I am being attracted towards your electric circle, I hope I shall reach it soon, as I shall then, I suppose, be more en rapport with madame, your sister." Zara's luminous eyes surveyed him with a sort of queenly pity and forbearance. "By the time YOU arrive at that goal, Prince," she said calmly, "it is most probable that I shall have departed."
There was something about Zara's type, the white, exquisite beauty of her skin, her slenderly voluptuous shape, the stormy suggestion of hidden passion in her slumberous eyes, which had always aroused absolutely mad emotions in men.
She was a magnificently proud and noble-looking creature, but perhaps even the noblest women could stoop to trick from love! And this thought caused him to jump up suddenly much to Zara's astonishment. And she saw the veins show on the left side of his temple as in a knot, a peculiarity, like the horseshoe of the Redgauntlets, which ran in the Tancred race.
Why, I have longed, and do long for fame, for wealth, for the world's applause, for all the things which you seem to think so petty and mean. How can I help it? Is not fame power? Is not money a double power, strong to assist one's self and those one loves? Is not the world's favour a necessary means to gain these things?" Zara's eyes gleamed with a soft and pitying gentleness.
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