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'Thou liest! said she, abruptly. 'Thou art an uncourteous welcomer, returned Glaucus. 'Hush! provoke her not, dear Glaucus! whispered Ione. 'I will tell thee why I laughed when I discovered ye were lovers, said the old woman.
'I speak the truth; and while I speak, Ione is in the halls of Arbaces for the first time his guest. Thou knowest if there be peril in that first time! Farewell! I have fulfilled my charge. 'Stay! stay! cried the priest, passing his wan hand over his brow. 'If this be true, what what can be done to save her? They may not admit me. I know not all the mazes of that intricate mansion.
The Ione was considered a good sailer, but the Frenchmen showed that they were still faster. Captain Dickson, however, had no intention of yielding his ship as long as he had a stick standing to escape with. Full of men as he now was, he hoped to beat off both his foes, though he could not expect to capture them in sight of an enemy's squadron.
Rapidly one thought chased another; he saw before him an obstinate barrier to even a lawful alliance with Ione the fellow-champion of Glaucus in the struggle which had baffled his designs the reviler of his name the threatened desecrator of the goddess he served while he disbelieved the avowed and approaching revealer of his own impostures and vices.
It was with this resolution that he passed through a thick grove in the city, which lay between his house and that of Ione, in his way to the latter; and there, leaning against a tree, and gazing on the ground, he came unawares on the young priest of Isis. 'Apaecides! said he and he laid his hand affectionately on the young man's shoulder.
He read it to the end, and then, as the letter fell from his hand, he said, in a voice of deceitful calmness, "Is the writer of this the man thou lovest?" Ione sobbed, but answered not. "Speak!" he demanded. "It is it is!" "Then hear me," said Arbaces, sinking his voice into a whisper. "Thou shalt go to thy tomb rather than to his arms."
Both started, and recognized behind the seat of Ione the cold and sarcastic face of the Egyptian. 'You are a sudden guest, said Glaucus, rising, and with a forced smile. 'So ought all to be who know they are welcome, returned Arbaces, seating himself, and motioning to Glaucus to do the same.
'Ione, said Apaecides, drawing her towards him, and regarding her tenderly, 'can I think that this beautiful form, this kind heart, may be destined to an eternity of torment? 'Dii meliora! the gods forbid! said Ione, in the customary form of words by which her contemporaries thought an omen might be averted. The words, and still more the superstition they implied, wounded the ear of Apaecides.
Arbaces is not one to be credulously trusted: can it be that he hath wronged me to thee? I think it, for I left him with thee; thou sawest how my presence stung him; since then thou hast not admitted me. Believe nothing that he can say to my disfavor; if thou dost, tell me so at once; for this Ione owes to Glaucus.
The Egyptian raised his eyes to Glaucus with a sudden and piercing glance. 'I do not understand you, said he, coldly; 'but it is the custom to consider that wit lies in obscurity. He turned from Glaucus as he spoke, with a scarcely perceptible sneer of contempt, and after a moment's pause addressed himself to Ione.
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