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ARIADNE. 97him! Do you not know ? While he livesIwill live. Icould not die and leave him on theearth, in the light, smiling on others! Youwill not hurt him? Promise me! "Maryx made no reply." You do not promise ?""No."" Then go. Ican see you no more untilyou do."She turned her face from him, and with agesture signed to him to leave her.He stood there, not seeming to see the sign,nor to see that she had turned away fromhim." Must one be worthless to be loved likethat! " he muttered; and his head fell on hischest, and he looked like an old mangrey withage, and he tinned and came out from thechamber, movingfeebly,and like oneblind.Iwent from the threshold to her side." Oh, my clear, are you grown cruel ? Thatman is noble, and full of pity and pain, and inthe old time he served you with so much tenderness."VOL. III.H