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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1877. Excerpt: ... a smile, --ah! the courage of that smile! "You are greater than I; the world says so." "The world is foolish," she answered. "If I be great in any way, it is by you alone." "Nay--by Athene!" he said, and strove to smile again. He left her very soon. To remain near her was beyond his strength. We went together down the dusky stairs and out into the night. We went on in silence through the city towards the river's banks. "She looks ill," he said abruptly, once. "Oh no--oh no," I said, with feverish denial. "She seldom sleeps, I think; and now that the marble is gone--her life seems gone away with it. That is all --that is all!" "All!" he echoed: and walked on in silence. We came upon the moonlit quietness of Tiber. "Do they indeed call her so great in Paris?" I cried, as I looked up at my own window where she had used to stand amongst the bean flowers to watch the river on just such a night as this one was. "Yes. They have crowned her there; and they say, --'a great genius?--yes, --she was one of the loves of Hilarion.' That is what they say almost always." "And yet we let him live." "She wishes it. Have we a right to make her more desolate?" I did not answer him. I was sick of heart. The beautiful Immortal who had come to her in her loneliness, was that offspring of Jove we call Art: must the bow of slander be bent, and the arrow of scorn be sped to slay her, as the shaft of Artemis slew Ariadnd? Mine had been only a dream--only a dream; must she always suffer for that? Maryx had paused, and was standing on the brink of the water, looking down into its limpid darkness. The moonlight fell on the white locks that had come about his forehead, and the lines of age that these few years had scored upon his cheeks. He was lost in thought. "There is one hope for her," he said to himself; then s...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154388237
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154388239
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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