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Grégoire’s presence would be needed later in the day, when the cotton was hauled to gin to be weighed; when the mules were brought to stable, to see them properly fed and cared for, and the gearing all put in place. In the meanwhile he was deliciously idle with Melicent.
It poisoned everything, caused him to find his statecraft tedious, his power profitless, and his vices gloomy. But chief of all he fretted over the standards by which the lives of Melicent and Perion were guided.
"Demetrios, already your antics are laughable, for you pass blindly by the revelation of heaven's splendour in heaven's masterwork; you ignore the miracle; and so do you find only the stings of the flesh where I find joy in rendering love and service to Dame Melicent." "Perion, it is you that play the fool, in not recognising that heaven is inaccessible and doubtful.
So you must choose again, Dom Manuel, whether it be you or another who rides on my black horse." Then Manuel bent down, and he kissed little Melicent. "Go to your mother, dear, and tell her " He paused here. He queerly moved his mouth, as though it were stiff and he were trying to make it more supple. Says Melicent, "But what am I to tell her, Father?" "Oh, a very funny thing, my darling.
Said Perion, "You speak in this fashion of the most lovely lady God has made of her whom the world adores!" "Adores!" the bishop answered, with a laugh; "and what poor gull am I to adore an attested wanton?" Then, with a sneer, he spoke of Melicent, and in such terms as are not bettered by repetition. Perion said: "I am the most unhappy man alive, as surely as you are the most ungenerous.
And consciousness of his words' poverty, as Perion thus lightly played with death in order to accord due honour to the lady he served, was to Dame Melicent in her high martyrdom as is the twist of a dagger in an already fatal wound; and made her love augment. Sang Perion: "My fair sweet friend, it is I, your servitor, who cry to you, Be of good heart!
"I mean to bring back my stolen wife, Dame Melicent," was Perion's reply: "and if I can manage it I shall also bring you this Demetrios, in return for lending me these ships and soldiers." "Do you think," the King asked, peevishly, "that monarchs nowadays fit out armaments to replevin a woman who is no longer young, and who was always stupid?" "I cannot permit these observations " said Perion.
"Oh, it is very true," says Manuel, "that all my life henceforward will be a wearying business because of long desires for Suskind's love and Suskind's lips and the grave beauty of her youth, and for all the high-hearted dissatisfactions of youth. But the Alf charm is lifted from the head of my child, and Melicent will live as Niafer lives, and it will be better for all of us, and I am content."
“You don’t like her?” he asked, stupefied at the strange possibility of any one not loving Melicent to distraction. “No. You wouldn’t either, if you knew her as well as I do. If she likes a person she goes on like a lunatic over them as long as it lasts; then good-bye John! she’ll throw them aside as she would an old dress.” “Oh, I believe she thinks a heap of Aunt Thérèse.”
Oh, yes, past doubt: but this woman was a stranger to him, as he now knew with an odd sense of sickness. Thus, then, had ended the quest of Melicent. Their love had flouted Time and Fate. These had revenged this insolence, it seemed to Perion, by an ironical conversion of each rebel into another person.
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