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No living soul had ever raised in her so deep an affection, and yet she knew now that, although the cost was great, she was willing to sacrifice Zora for Paris. After all, it was not too late; a rapid ride even now might secure high office for Alwyn and make Cresswell ambassador. It would be difficult but possible.
She came home tired out, and thankful that her father went to rest in his own room. She climbed to the nursery, thinking to share Alwyn's tea and comfort him, but she found only nurse there. Nurse had a bad foot, and dreaded hot pavement, so she had sent Master Alwyn out with her subordinate, a country girl, to play in Mr.
Zora was not meant for marrying; she was a born leader, wedded to a great cause; she had long outgrown the boy and girl affection. She was the sort of woman she herself might have been if she had not married. Alwyn, on the other hand, needed a wife; he was a great, virile boy, requiring a simple, affectionate mate. No sooner did she see Emma than she was sure that this was the ideal wife.
Three of the brethren are Egyptians, and two are natives of Damascus. The rest are, like myself, descendants of a race supposed to have perished from off the face of the earth, yet still powerful to a degree undreamed of by the men of this puny age." Alwyn gave an upward glance at the speaker's regal form a glance of genuine admiration.
Alwyn drew a deep, quick breath; the sight of those armed soldiers roused him to the fact that he was actually in the turmoil of present daily events, that his supernal happiness was no vision, but REALITY, that Edris, his Spirit- love, was with him in tangible human guise of flesh and blood, though how such a mysterious marvel had been accomplished, he knew no more than scientists know how the lovely life of green leaf and perfect flower can still be existent in seeds that have lain dormant and dry in old tombs for thousands of years!
Babylon, or rather the earth-mounds which are now called Babylon, had very little to do with it." "Don't you want to tell me about it?" demanded Tilliers abruptly. "Not just yet" answered Alwyn, with good-humored frankness, "Not to-night, at any rate! But I WILL tell you, never fear!
On his way Alwyn met many of his countrymen, travellers who, like himself, had visited the Caucasus and Armenia and were now en route, some for Damascus, some for Jerusalem and the Holy Land others again for Cairo and Alexandria, to depart from thence homeward by the usual Mediterranean line, . . but among these birds- of-passage acquaintance he chanced upon none who were going to the Ruins of Babylon.
And self-slaughter, though it may be called madness, is far more often the result of intellectual misery." "Of course, too much learning breeds brain disease" remarked Dr. Mudley sententiously "but only in weak subjects, and in my opinion the weak are better out of the world. We've no room for them nowadays." "You say truly, sir," replied Alwyn "we have no room for them, and no patience!
"Accept, accept," whispered Alwyn; "for your daughter's sake for your own nay, for the Eureka's!" Adam bowed his head, and groaned forth, "But I go not hence no, not a foot unless this goes with me. Cruel wretch, how he hath deformed it!" "And now," cried Alwyn, eagerly, "this wronged and unhappy maiden?"
An hour later, Brother Roger came in to the captain's quarters. "So you have been in trouble again, Brother Roger," Alwyn Forster said with a laugh, as he held out his hand to him. "That have I, and an hour ago I was lying in a prison cell, cursing my hot temper; and with, as it seemed, the certainty of being publicly unfrocked, and turned out like a mangy dog from a pack.
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