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80ARIADNE.ipoor crowding together in dusky hovels that oncewerethe arched passages of palaces or the opencourts of public pleasure places.There waslittle light;hereand there alanternswungupon a cord, or the glow from a smith'sforge shone ruddy on the stones. She did notnotice anything; she came onward with me,walking straight!}', as the blind do. Thencefrom the darkness and the squalor and the ruin,we came out by winding ways on to the river'sbank by Quattro Capi.Theriver was full,butnot in flood;its tawnyhues werebrown with the soil of the mountains:onit a few boats were rocking, tied with ropesto the piles of the bridge; the island wasindistinct,and the farther shore was dim, but at thatinstant the moonrose, and lines of silver passedacross the pulsing stream, and touched to lightthe peristyle of the little moss-grown temple byour side, and the falling water of the Medicifountain.She moved forward of her ownwill,and walkedto the edge of the Tiber, and stood and lookedon the strong swift current and the shadowy
ARIADNE. 81shores, and on the domes and roofs and towersand temples that were gathered like a phantomcity on the edges of the shores.She looked in silence.Then all at once the blindness passed fromher eyes, she saw;and knew the sight she saw.She stretched out her arms, with a tremuloushesitation and gesture of ineffable welcome." This is Rome!" she cried, with a great sigh,while her very soul seemed to go forth to the cityas a child to its mother: then she fell on herknees and wept aloud.Iknew that she was saved, and Rome hadsaved her.VOL. III.G
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AriadneTHE STORY OF A DREAM.By OUID
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ARIADNE. 3and its porphyry^ and its
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ARIADNE. 5like the moorlands of the
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ARIADNE. 7whiteness. We had walked
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ARIADNE. 9The lamp that he held he
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ARIADNE. 11dead. Icare for the marb
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ARIADNE. 13silvery aboutmy feet, an
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ARIADNE. 15before the genius of his
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ARIADNE. 17that is never dim. But m
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ARIADNE. 19laid bare all the jewels
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ARIADNE. 21it, but only saw the loc
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ARIADNE. 23times; nervous depressio
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ARIADNE. 25forgot them: what matter
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ARIADNE. 27tered many curses and fe
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Page 42 and 43: CHAPTER IVIwent to Pippo, andIsaid
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Page 59 and 60: ARIADNE. 51Myheart stood stUl. Ihad
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Page 67 and 68: ARIADNE. 59garden,Isaw a messenger
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Page 71 and 72: ARIADNE. 63' Hush !it will be finis
Page 73 and 74: ARIADNE. 65she is always asking;tha
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Page 77 and 78: ARIADNE. 69agony,Irepented then hav
Page 79 and 80: ARIADNE. 71thinking only of her;but
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Page 83 and 84: ARIADNE. 75see them even. No doubt
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Page 91 and 92: ARIADNE. 83motionless.Itouched and
Page 93 and 94: ARIADNE. 85quiet and deserted; the
Page 95 and 96: ARIADNE. 87went out and sat clown o
Page 97 and 98: ARIADNE. 89"Yes,Iam here. Hush! spe
Page 99 and 100: ARIADNE. 91to me, a Roman, to whom
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Page 103 and 104: ARIADNE. 95spent their lives like w
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Page 111 and 112: ARIADNE. 103racked with pain. No su
Page 113 and 114: ARIADNE. 105now become equally abso
Page 115 and 116: ARIADNE. 107and the naked there wer
Page 117 and 118: ARIADNE. 109saw them. He had been,
Page 119 and 120: ARIADNE. 111their goodnight's sleep
Page 121 and 122: ARIADNE. 113her feel she wasliving
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Page 125 and 126: ARIADNE. 117nightingales, and so pi
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Page 129 and 130: ARIADNE. 121aburied village when th
Page 131 and 132: ARIADNE. 123But for mypromise to he
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Page 135 and 136: ARIADNE. 127seek to go away. He sto
Page 137 and 138: ARIADNE. 129speak the truth. Yetit
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ARIADNE. 131seems to me that you ar
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ARIADNE. 133beauty against the gran
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ARIADNE. 135Hilarion laughed ahttle
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ARIADNE. 137that mirroredhim." That
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ARIADNE. 139to be always seeing hea
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ARIADNE. 141He laughed a httle, par
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ARIADNE. 143ThenIturned,and woulcl
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ARIADNE. 145other gain from her a m
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ARIADNE. 147dead things none are so
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ARIADNE. 149sometimes, and knew tho
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ARIADNE. 151her; she was vaguely op
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ARIADNE. 153She stayed aU the summe
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ARIADNE. 155of tlie Nonii, to the s
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ARIADNE. 157Then hot tears filled h
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ARIADNE. 159A Divine City indeed, h
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ARIADNE. 161open air of the gardens
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CHAPTER XThat verynightImade a scul
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ARIADNE. 165silent andlookinginto v
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ARIADNE. 167never touched Maryx onc
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ARIADNE. 169coidd not end the phras
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ARIADNE. 171" Iwoulcl notpromise,"
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ARIADNE. 173that are vile canbe fai
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CHAPTER XLThe months went on, and s
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ARIADNE. 177Hilarion: the man made
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ARIADNE. 179" Is that aU that you k
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ARIADNE. 181and the apes away. IfIc
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ARIADNE. 183would change places wit
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ARIADNE. 185to her. Youlook strange
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CHAPTER XII.AVhex he had goneaway t
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ARIADNE. 189you ? Imean simply and
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ARIADNE. 191AlmostIlonged to teU he
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ARIADNE. 193the ways of the world a
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ARIADNE. 195" Take my life away wit
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ARIADNE. 197talked of; it took a ti
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ARIADNE. 199pale Carrara marble, an
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ARIADNE. 201bit his tired senses in
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ARIADNE. 203pure a breath of heaven
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ARIADNE. 205before the world, and h
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ARIADNE. 207— for her sake. He kn
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ARIADNE. 209" Do they indeed caU he
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CHAPTER XIAIt was the night of the
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ARIADNE. 213selfish effort — alas
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ARIADNE. 215reason, when the clay i
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ARIADNE. 217self that she will have
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ARIADNE. 219" Oh my God ! "Maryx gr
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ARIADNE. 221canIsay to move you? If
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CHAPTER XVTo a blow there is but on
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CHAPTER XVI.And the old mother was
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ARIADNE. 227him gone out into nothi
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ARIADNE. 229"Look you," she said to
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ARIADNE. 231The people came there a
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ARIADNE. 233and white, and the nigh
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ARIADNE. 235fathers' arms were sile
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ARIADNE. 237" So best," he had answ
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ARIADNE. 239bended whyin the eyes o
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ARIADNE. 241" CouldI but suffer for
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ARIADNE. 243genius; and they aU tol
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ARIADNE. 245when she had cried out
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ARIADNE. 247striven;but evil had be
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ARIADNE. 249my tired forehead on my
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ARIADNE. 251■over the marble floo
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ARIADNE. 253"I came as soon asIwas
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ARIADNE. 255oldcold accent;but he s
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ARIADNE. 257beenangered; he woulcl
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ARIADNE. 259ATatican there were lon
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