"Oh, yes!—for always!"
He took her hands and pressed them upon his thrumming heart; and in this
attitude they remained for some time. "Would you rather be alone?"
"No. . The pavement had been
hastily picked up, and heaped across the end of the street, upon which planks,
barrels, and other barricades, were laid. You want to think for a time, to be free for a
time. "
So saying, he took hold of a ring in the floor, and disclosed a flight of steps,
down which he hurried, followed by the janizaries. "But to the point," continued Wild, unconscious of the peril in which the remark
had placed him,—"to the point. All who lived
there aspired to be something greater, all who lived there
had hope, even the slaves! Oh, Lucia, if you could have
seen the Parthenon, or attended the plays at the
Athaneum, you would know why I loved it there. The sun shined weakly through brief pinpricks
90
in the thick cloud cover, the weather was brewing a
storm. It dealt from floor to ceiling and
end to end with the Theory of the Forms of Life; the very duster by the
blackboard was there to do its share in that work, the very washers in the taps;
the room was more simply concentrated in aim even than a church. There was a short, red-faced,
resolute youth who inherited an authoritative attitude upon bacteriology from his
father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had
an imperfect knowledge of English; and a dark, unwashed Scotchman with
complicated spectacles, who would come every morning as a sort of volunteer
supplementary demonstrator, look very closely at her work and her, tell her that
her dissections were “fairish,” or “very fairish indeed,” or “high above the
normal female standard,” hover as if for some outbreak of passionate gratitude
and with admiring retrospects that made the facetted spectacles gleam like
diamonds, return to his own place. “I shot him. Hitherto, no visiters had been permitted to see him.
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