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But to Ione despair gave supernatural strength: she again tore herself from him she rushed to that part of the room by which she had entered she half withdrew the curtain he had seized her again she broke away from him and fell, exhausted, and with a loud shriek, at the base of the column which supported the head of the Egyptian goddess.
Ione listened with wrapt attention, and the serious and earnest manner of the narrator betrayed the impression that he himself had received from one who had been amongst the audience that on the hill of the heathen Mars had heard the first tidings of the word of Christ!
'Who is there? said the trembling and hollow voice of one who had preceded them in their place of refuge. 'Yet, what matters? the crush of the ruined world forbids to us friends or foes. Ione turned at the sound of the voice, and, with a faint shriek, cowered again beneath the arms of Glaucus: and he, looking in the direction of the voice, beheld the cause of her alarm.
Never did the Ione go along at greater speed under the same canvas than she was doing in chase of the Greek brig; but fast as she went, she gained little, if anything, on the vessel she pursued. No two crafts could have been better matched. The chances were all, therefore, in favour of the escape of the latter. She was four miles ahead, and she kept that distance.
He jumped up as he said this, and shouted at the top of his voice; but no hail was heard in return; and it now became too probable that, owing to the calm which had prevailed all day, the Ione had been delayed, and that her boats had not reached their station; for, otherwise, as Fleetwood suggested, they would most certainly have pulled towards them directly they heard the guns of the Sea Hawk.
'Tell me, said she, suddenly, and after a long pause, 'are ye brother and sister? 'No, said Ione, blushing. 'Are ye married? 'Not so, replied Glaucus. 'Ho, lovers! ha! ha! ha! and the witch laughed so loud and so long that the caverns rang again. The heart of Ione stood still at that strange mirth.
She urged that her mistress must have been carried away in the Sea Hawk, and that as the Ione was going in search of that vessel, her services would certainly be required when she was recovered, which she felt positive she would be, as she would serve as a chaperone to Ada, should he be blessed by finding her. Fleetwood was glad to take her with him.
'Run thither at least, said Glaucus; 'we must find the best shelter we can till you return. The lane was overshadowed with trees, beneath the amplest of which Glaucus drew Ione.
He ascended to the upper rooms breathless he paced along, shouting out aloud the name of Ione; and at length he heard, at the end of a gallery, a voice her voice, in wondering reply! To rush forward to shatter the door to seize Ione in his arms to hurry from the mansion seemed to him the work of an instant!
Occupied with his own thoughts thoughts of so serious and intense a nature the young priest had thought little of his sister; in truth, men, perhaps of that fervent order of mind which is ever aspiring above earth, are but little prone to the earthlier affections; and it had been long since Apaecides had sought those soft and friendly interchanges of thought, those sweet confidences, which in his earlier youth had bound him to Ione, and which are so natural to that endearing connection which existed between them.
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