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"Aunt Ginevra, you must have that oiled," said Halcyone, as she screwed up her face. "How can you bear it? You can't see the lovely spring things, with that noise." "One does not see with one's ears, Halcyone," quavered Miss La Sarthe. "Take me in now, William." "And she can't even see them with her eyes poor Aunt Ginevra!"
To these words Morpheus added the voice which seemed to be that of her husband; he seemed to pour forth genuine tears; his hands had the gestures of Ceyx. Halcyone, weeping, groaned, and stretched out her arms in her sleep, striving to embrace his body, but grasping only the air. "Stay!" she cried; "whither do you fly? Let us go together." Her own voice awakened her.
He turned to the goddess again, and almost chaunted: "Oh! Aphrodite of the divine lips and soulful eyes, what mystery do you hold for us mortals? What do you promise us? What do you make us pay? Is the good worth the anguish? Is the fulfillment a cup worth draining without counting the cost?" "What does she answer you?" whispered Halcyone.
And what agonizing thoughts coursed through his poor feverish brain until through sheer weakness there would be hours when he was numb. What could Halcyone have thought waiting for him all that day! and now she, of course, must have heard of his accident and there was no sign or word. Or was there and were those cruel doctors not giving him the message?
Halcyone was trembling all over, and when she had put her precious bundle safely into the bag with the rest of her simple preparations, she laid it on the iron-bound box which had never been stirred, all ready for her to lift up and take with her in the morning.
James Anderton was seated in the Italian parlor with the two ancient hostesses when Halcyone at last came into their midst. They had evidently exhausted all possible topics of conversation and were extremely glad of an interruption.
She is not woman enough yet to attract his eye; he will only perceive she is a rather plain child and she will certainly see the other side of his head." As Halcyone walked back to La Sarthe Chase for her early dinner, she mused also: "I must not feel this dislike towards Cheiron's other pupil.
Carlyon would not interrupt what was evidently a serious moment to his little friend. He waited, and then presently he turned the channel of her thoughts by asking her if she thought he might call on her Aunts that afternoon. Halcyone hesitated a second. "We hardly ever have visitors.
However, he had not to wait or speculate long, for, with hardly a creak, two stones seemed to turn upon a pivot, and Halcyone came forth from the aperture bending her head. "After all, I do not think you had better come in with me," she said. "It is low like this for ten yards; it will make your back ache so I have brought her.
Now Ceyx was in deep affliction for the loss of his brother, and direful prodigies following his brother's death made him feel as if the gods were hostile to him. He thought best, therefore, to make a voyage to Carlos in Ionia, to consult the oracle of Apollo. But as soon as he disclosed his intention to his wife Halcyone, a shudder ran through her frame, and her face grew deadly pale.
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