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Glaucus had chosen a herald that was indeed sacred a herald that could not be denied. 'What can he want with me? what message can he send? and the heart of Ione beat quick. The curtain across the door was withdrawn; a soft and echoless step fell upon the marble; and Nydia, led by one of the attendants, entered with her precious gift.
Devote, then, to the austere friend of your youth, one of these bright summer evenings, and let me boast that my gloomy mansion has been honored with the presence of the admired Ione. Unconscious of the pollutions of the mansion, of the danger that awaited her, Ione readily assented to the proposal.
They tell me of earlier hours; And I hear the heart of my Country breathe From the lips of the Stranger's flowers. 'WHAT happiness to Ione! what bliss to be ever by the side of Glaucus, to hear his voice! And she too can see him! Such was the soliloquy of the blind girl, as she walked alone and at twilight to the house of her new mistress, whither Glaucus had already preceded her.
One morning, as the ship lay becalmed on the shining ocean, with the sun's rays beaming down as from a furnace on the heads of the crew, the smoke of a steamer was seen coming from the southward. She rapidly approached, and coming nearer, made her number. She was a man-of-war. Had she came out to relieve the "Ione"? Every eye on board watched her eagerly.
So saying, he threw his arm firmly round the shrinking form of Ione. She drew back, gazed earnestly in his face, and then burst into hysterical laughter: 'Ha, ha! this is well well! Excellent guardian paternal law!
Arbaces stood before the altar: he had laid his garland on the shrine, and seemed occupied with pouring into the tripod the contents of a brazen vase; suddenly from that tripod leaped into life a blue, quick, darting, irregular flame; the Egyptian drew back to the side of Ione, and muttered some words in a language unfamiliar to her ear; the curtain at the back of the altar waved tremulously to and fro it parted slowly, and in the aperture which was thus made, Ione beheld an indistinct and pale landscape, which gradually grew brighter and clearer as she gazed; at length she discovered plainly trees, and rivers, and meadows, and all the beautiful diversity of the richest earth.
Large parties of ladies and gentlemen have passed up on the steamboats Loyal Hanna and Malta. And we noticed in a late St. Louis paper, the advertisements of the Valley Forge, Ione, Brazil and Monsoon, all for 'pleasure excursions to St.
Then, in those soft intervals of lassitude that succeed to excitement I can weave my spells excite her interest attract her passions possess myself of her heart. For it is not the young, nor the beautiful, nor the gay, that should fascinate Ione; her imagination must be won, and the life of Arbaces has been one scene of triumph over the imaginations of his kind.
The slave, encouraged by the boldness of her superiors, divested herself also of her long palla, and crept timorously to the opposite corner of the hearth. 'We disturb you, I fear, said the silver voice of Ione, in conciliation. The witch did not reply she seemed like one who has awakened for a moment from the dead, and has then relapsed once more into the eternal slumber.
I have reared a tomb to her shade, and I see it every day from the window of my study. It keeps alive in me a tender recollection a not unpleasing sadness which are but a fitting homage to her fidelity, and the mysteriousness of her early death. Ione gathers the flowers, but my own hand wreathes them daily around the tomb. She was worthy of a tomb in Athens!
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