Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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7377	In death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the grave who shall give Thee thanks?
7377	Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
7377	After having once received the human organism, why should a soul choose to go back to the lesser and more imperfect organism of an animal?
7377	And will you punish him because he can not become so?
7377	But how can we bring the soul down on the sense plane when it is ethereal and finer than anything that we can perceive with our senses?
7377	Can a man who possesses the slightest common sense be so unreasonable?
7377	Do we see in nature any other higher form evolved out of the human body?
7377	Do you think that the thought- forces of one life- time will end suddenly after death?
7377	Does heredity explain such cases?
7377	Does it not seem absurd to you?
7377	Does the theory of heredity explain it?
7377	Even if we admit this theory of heredity, then what do we understand?
7377	From whom did he inherit them?
7377	How can heredity explain such cases?
7377	How can something come out of nothing?
7377	How can such cases be explained by the theory of hereditary transmission?
7377	How can that come into existence which did not exist before?
7377	How can we worship Him, how call Him just and merciful?
7377	How is it possible for a lesser manifestation to hold a greater one?
7377	If the omnipotent personal God created human souls out of nothing, could He not make all souls equally good and happy?
7377	If we do not admit this law then the problem will arise: How can non- existence become existent?
7377	In Psalms we read,"Wilt Thou shew wonders to the dead?
7377	Is that"tendency to vary"indefinite, or is it limited by any definite law?
7377	Now that we have outgrown them why should we go back to them?
7377	Now, what are those germs like?
7377	Parents?
7377	Shall the dead arise and praise Thee?"
7377	Shall we not be justified if we say that the end of physical evolution is the attainment of the perfection of animal form?
7377	Similarly what would you think if God punishes a man because he can not become perfect within a lifetime?
7377	The question was asked,"How shall they produce resurrection?"
7377	WHICH IS SCIENTIFIC-- RESURRECTION OR REINCARNATION?
7377	We ask, how can a single cell reproduce the whole body of the offspring, its mind, character and all the peculiarities of an organism?
7377	What is love?
7377	What is sin?
7377	What is that germ like?
7377	What is the cause?
7377	What regulates them?
7377	When did he inherit?
7377	Where did he get all these powers?
7377	Where is that common stock and why will certain germs acquire certain tendencies and other germs retain other peculiarities?
7377	Wherefrom do they acquire these tendencies, these peculiarities?
7377	Who can tell how long it will take to reach that goal?
7377	Who made one honest and saintly, another an idiot, and so forth?
7377	Who made these dissimilarities?
7377	Why are they invisible to us now?
7377	Why does He make one to enjoy all the blessings of life and another to suffer all miseries throughout eternity?
7377	Why does He not create all souls equal?
7377	Why is it that the children of the same parents show a marked dissimilarity to their parents and to each other?
7377	Why is one born intelligent and another idiotic?
7377	Why is one born with good tendencies and another with evil ones?
7377	Why is one man virtuous throughout his life and another bestial?
7377	Why is there this difference?
7377	Why should a greater manifestation choose more limited forms in preference to those of others?
7377	Why will one soul be highly advanced spiritually while another is entirely ignorant and idiotic?
7377	Why?
7377	Why?
7377	Would we be able to see those pictures?
7377	_ Poem on Pythagoras, Dryden''s Ovid._ Here it may be asked, if we existed before our birth why do we not remember?
26364	And his disciples asked him, saying,''Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?''
26364	A well- known man once was asked the question:"What becomes of a man''s soul after death?"
26364	Are not the great majority of the events of our present life completely forgotten?
26364	But under this view, what is the exact significance of the Judgment Day and the Physical Resurrection?
26364	But why spread these instances over more pages?
26364	Do you know the dogma of the Church and the belief of masses of the orthodox Christians of the early centuries?
26364	How have those deserved the partiality of fortune, who live in happy lands, while many of their brethren suffer and weep in other parts of the world?"
26364	How many can recall the events of the youthful life?
26364	I said to myself, what is this?
26364	In the first place, let us consider that phase of the question which asks:"Does the soul incarnate immediately after death?"
26364	Is it Reincarnation?
26364	Is it not perfectly fair and reasonable to consider these cases as similar to the absence of memory in cases of Reincarnation?
26364	Is it not worthy of our attention and consideration?
26364	Is that"something"connected with the"soul"rather than the mind of the child?
26364	Is that"something"that which men call Metempsychosis-- Re- Birth-- Reincarnation?
26364	Is this equality of opportunity and experience, or Justice?
26364	Is this phenomena to be included in the Proofs of Reincarnation?
26364	Rather an advanced form of philosophy for"barbarians,"is it not?
26364	Some other factor is there-- is it Reincarnation?
26364	St. Augustine, in his"Confessions,"makes use of these remarkable words:"Did I not live in another body before entering my mother''s womb?"
26364	The next phase of the question:"Where does the soul dwell between incarnations?"
26364	The question is, Will the immortal soul be born again in the same individual, physically transformed-- into the same person?"
26364	The third phase of the question:"What is the final state or abode of the soul?"
26364	Think of this-- is this Justice?
26364	This being so, why should we attempt to speculate about The End?
26364	What are the cause of these phenomena?
26364	What crime have they committed?
26364	What has Adam to do with your soul, if it came fresh from the mint of the Maker, pure and unsullied-- how could his sin taint your new soul?
26364	Who has not been seized at times with the consciousness of a mighty''oldness''of soul?
26364	Who has not experienced the consciousness of having felt the thing before-- having thought it some time in the dim past?
26364	Who has not gazed at some old painting, or piece of statuary, with the sense of having seen it all before?
26364	Who has not had these experiences?"
26364	Who has not met persons for the first time, whose presence awakened memories of a past lying far back in the misty ages of long ago?
26364	Who has not witnessed new scenes that appear old, very old?
26364	Why am I not a prince and a great lord, instead of a poor pilgrim on the earth, ungrateful and rebellious?
26364	Why are they here on earth?
26364	Why is not a wretched African negro in my place in Paris, in conditions of comfort?
26364	Why is the unequal distribution of the terrible evils that fall upon some men, and spare others?
26364	You doubt it?
21533	Is this a reason against it? 21533 Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest?
21533	What demon is this that has taken possession of me?
21533	What have I done?
21533	Why act at all, the objection will be urged, if everything is foreseen by the Law? 21533 A man clothed in soft raiment? 21533 A prophet? 21533 A reed shaken with the wind? 21533 And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 21533 And once more, why not another time all those steps, to perform which the views of Eternal Rewards so powerfully assist us? 21533 And that which even I must forget_ now_, is that necessarily forgotten for ever?
21533	And would this chastisement, multiplied millions of times without the faintest reason, never have stirred the conscience of the Church?
21533	And yet, who suspected this until he had gone out for a few minutes and then returned to the bed- room?
21533	As a final example, do not infant prodigies prove that men are not born equal?
21533	As children have in them no sin capable of meriting so terrible a punishment, tell me what answer can be given?"
21533	Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had disciplined and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?
21533	But Herod said, John have I beheaded; but who is this of whom I hear such things?
21533	But what went ye out for to see?
21533	But what went ye out for to see?
21533	But why should not every individual man have existed more than once in this world?
21533	Can he have been in one and the self- same life a sensual Jew and a spiritual Christian?
21533	Can no reply be given to this terrible charge brought against Divinity?
21533	Can the millions of descendants of the mythical Adam have been chastised for a crime in which they have had no share?
21533	Could divine Law be less compassionate than human law?
21533	Could the assassin, who has lost all memory of the crime committed the previous evening, change his deed or its results in the slightest degree?
21533	Did he mention it only to ridicule the superstitions of his contemporaries, as seems evident from the_ Timæus_?
21533	Did the Fathers of the Church teach Pre- existence?
21533	Do I bring away so much from once that there is nothing to repay the trouble of coming back?
21533	Does Plato take metempsychosis seriously, as one would be tempted to believe after reading the_ Republic_?
21533	Does forgetfulness efface faults or destroy their consequences?
21533	Does human justice, in spite of its imperfection, punish the offspring of criminals?
21533	Does not the man, who commits suicide, himself push forward the hand on the dial of life, setting it at the fatal hour?
21533	Does not the study of Nature, at each step, belie this insensate waste, of which no human being would be guilty?
21533	Goethe writes as follows to his friend Madame von Stein:"Tell me what destiny has in store for us?
21533	Have such arguments ever been justified by the voice of conscience?
21533	Have travelled over in one and the same life?
21533	Have you never had remembrances of a former state?...
21533	How can such frightful inequalities be made to appear consistent with the infinite wisdom and goodness of God?...
21533	How can we be said to have been banished from a place in which we never were?
21533	In the lineage of these prodigies has there been found a single ancestor capable of explaining these faculties, as astonishing as they are premature?
21533	Is it not rash for us, in our profound ignorance, to criticise the workings of a boundless Wisdom?
21533	Is it not sheer blasphemy to attribute such folly to the Soul of the world?
21533	Is it possible to attribute to the influence of surroundings alone a degree of moral poverty so profound as this?
21533	Is it the Church which has always imposed_ the letter_ of the Bible and condemned all who have attempted to set forth_ its spirit_?]
21533	Is man to remain in a state of dejection and discouragement, as though some irreparable catastrophe had befallen him?
21533	Is not the Law strong enough to save him, if he is not to die; and if he is, have we any right to interfere?...
21533	Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvia a something, a stuff or a substance, invisible and imponderable though it be?...
21533	Is there a previous life the elements of which have prepared the conditions of the life now being lived by each of us?
21533	Is this another instance, like the one just mentioned, of tampering with the writings of this Father of the Church?
21533	Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see?
21533	On Charpignon recommending that she should try to turn_ her_ aside from her purpose, she replied:"What can I do?
21533	Or because I forget that I have been here already?
21533	Ought not baptism to have been instituted immediately after the sin, and should it not have been placed within the reach of all?
21533	St. Augustine said:"Did I not live in another body, or somewhere else, before entering my mother''s womb?
21533	The question, however, might be asked: How is the transition made from one kingdom to another?
21533	To every awakened soul the question comes: Why does evil exist?
21533	WHY DOES PAIN EXIST?
21533	What is the missing link?
21533	What soul could admit that the innocent should be punished for the guilty?
21533	When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am?
21533	Where in Nature can there be found such lack of proportion between cause and effect, crime and punishment?
21533	Where lingers eternal justice then?
21533	Wherefore are thrift and foresight lacking in so many men, who are consequently condemned to lifelong poverty and wretchedness?
21533	Wherefore has it bound us so closely to each other?
21533	Who is to interpret the Bible if it is an allegorical book?
21533	Who would affirm that the dimensions of space are limited to four?
21533	Why does the astral body leave the physical during sleep?
21533	Why hast thou made me thus?''
21533	Why may not even I have already performed those steps of my perfecting which bring to men only temporal punishments and rewards?
21533	Why not try and understand the true meaning of the figurative statement before criticising?
21533	Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge, fresh expertness?
21533	Why stretch out a hand to the man who falls into the water before our very eyes?
21533	Why this excess of intelligence, used mainly for the exploiting of folly?
21533	Would not this delay in itself be an injustice?
21533	[ Footnote 196: Does this obscure passage refer to the resurrection of the body?]
21533	genus attonitum gelidæ formidine mortis, Quid Styga, quid tenebras, quid nomina vana timetis, Materiam vatum, falsique piacula mundi?
1162	A real blacksmith''s biceps, eh, Warden? 1162 Am I greater than the gods that I may thwart the will of the gods?
1162	An''what in the name of Sam Hill are they hard- riding for if it ai n''t for us?
1162	And if he do n''t come back?
1162	And if they wo n''t?
1162	And the hill?
1162	And then what happens?
1162	And then?
1162	And what harm in that?
1162	And you believe this wonder, Lodbrog?
1162	And your heaven?
1162	Anything more?
1162	Are there others?
1162	Are you afraid of the damned Mormons?
1162	Are you going to stop knuckle- talk?
1162	Are you going to stop your knuckle- talking?
1162	But are you certain?
1162	But did you see them sore?--before the healing?
1162	But the news, master? 1162 But they do n''t come near them?"
1162	But what if they intend treachery?
1162	But what will we do with the desert coming?
1162	But, man,I reasoned with him,"what do I know of myself about this Cho- Sen?
1162	Ca n''t they make up their minds what they''re goin''to do, an''then do it?
1162	Can you tell us the name of the hill?
1162	Did n''t Ed invent the knuckle- talk? 1162 Did n''t you know that?
1162	Did you ever forget a man''s name you used to know as well as your own brother''s? 1162 Did you hear it boil?"
1162	Did you read that grocery sign?
1162	Do n''t like the Mormons, eh, son?
1162	Do you remember all you read?
1162	Do you think you can win to her?
1162	Dunham, can your boy go along with Jesse?
1162	Eating?--drinking?--fighting?
1162	Enough of what?
1162	For look you, who cares for flowers where flowers always are? 1162 Getting religion, eh?"
1162	Has he not been waiting two hours as it is?
1162	Have I not wine- guzzled a- plenty and passed strange nights in all the provinces? 1162 Have they got the fisherman yet?"
1162	Have you any complaint to make, Standing?
1162	Have you got faith in it? 1162 He''s the stuff, ai n''t he, Ed?"
1162	How am I goin''to get a wink of sleep?
1162	How goes it with the Professor?
1162	How like you her?
1162	How long have you been in?
1162	How many sick tramps are there, my boy?
1162	How much longer are they going to keep you in?
1162	How''s the heart?
1162	How''s tricks?
1162	Is he God?
1162	Is it not said that this event was prophesied of old time?
1162	Is it not strange, so simple a man, a fisherman?
1162	Is there anything you want to complain about?
1162	Jesse,he asked,"are you afraid of the Indians?"
1162	Jesus did not steal?
1162	Just what, pray?
1162	Late news?
1162	Mayhap from the English Court?
1162	Me?
1162	Now, my boy, where is that?
1162	Now, professor, how do I know all this stuff about_ kimchi_? 1162 Oh, ho, you''re threatening me, are you?
1162	Or how could I have known it?
1162	Quick and brilliant is it?
1162	Say, Laban, supposin''you got killed here--"Who?--me?
1162	Since you are in haste,Henry Bohemond proposed to me,"and since there are three of them and three of us, why not settle it at the one time?"
1162	Since you are so sure of it, why do n''t you accept my proposition?
1162	Some man raised from the dead to put such strange light in your eyes?
1162	Some you forget?
1162	Surely you do n''t think I''m holding out because I enjoy it?
1162	That''s correct, and why not you? 1162 Then he can go on standing it?"
1162	Then what is its name, my boy?
1162	Then who am I,I asked,"to make liars of the prophets?
1162	Then why do you fear to talk about it?
1162	Then why worry?
1162	They will not sell?
1162	Think it is curtains?
1162	Think so?
1162	This Caiaphas, I have heard of him as high priest, then who is this Hanan?
1162	Warden,I said,"do you see the way I am smiling?
1162	Was he seditious?
1162	We must have our women in heaven, else what is heaven for?
1162	Well, then, Jesse,he said,"will you go with Jed to the spring for water?"
1162	Well, what is it?
1162	What about this dynamite?
1162	What are his plans?
1162	What are they?
1162	What are you going to do about it?
1162	What did I tell you?
1162	What did it matter?
1162	What do you think our chances are?
1162	What do you think, Doc?
1162	What is it?
1162	What is it?
1162	What is the other count?
1162	What manner of man can he be to possess such power? 1162 What next?
1162	What''s the matter with the ornery cusses?
1162	What''s to prevent your inventing it right here in solitary?
1162	Where is it now?
1162	Which is?
1162	Which is?
1162	Which was?
1162	Who ever heard of a man smiling after ten days of it?
1162	Who had squealed?
1162	Who is this he?
1162	Who knows anything about dynamite?
1162	Who was this John?
1162	Who, for instance?
1162	Whom did they crucify there, young scholar? 1162 Why burden my mind with thoughts about certainties?"
1162	Why did n''t you call me?
1162	Why did you not tell me before?
1162	Why do n''t they come in to us?
1162	Why not? 1162 Why not?"
1162	Why not?
1162	Why such haste? 1162 Why such haste?"
1162	Will he stand it?
1162	Will you give me your scalps?
1162	Yes?
1162	You believe that in the flash of an eye the festering sores departed from the lepers?
1162	You can cinch me as tight as you please, but if I smile ten days from now will you give the Bull Durham to Morrell and Oppenheimer?
1162	You mean mine is an iron- lined stomach?
1162	You mean that is n''t its name?
1162	You seen that smooth- faced old cuss?
1162	You think he''ll stand ten days of it, Doc.?
1162	A hunger strike, eh?"
1162	Ai n''t that right, Jake?"
1162	Am I any the less for these mutilations, for these subtractions of the flesh?
1162	Am I correct in assuming that you have read an account in some diary published later by this Daniel Foss?
1162	And I stayed my foot, and held my hand, for who was I to thwart the will and way of so greatly serene and sweetly sure a man as this?
1162	And again, how?
1162	And ai n''t you and me improving on it right along?
1162	And always it was dynamite, dynamite,"Where is the dynamite?"
1162	And at the end, de Villehardouin?"
1162	And ever the eternal question was propounded to me: Where was the dynamite?
1162	And ever, as we rode, Vandervoot brought up the rear, wondering,"God in heaven, what now?"
1162	And in such noble company how could I be less noble?
1162	And that very night did not Arius die in the street?
1162	And what I witnessed set me bawling,"What now, Vandervoot?"
1162	And what can even the Warden of a great prison do in reprisal on a prisoner upon whom the ultimate reprisal has already been wreaked?
1162	And when I had you decently in the bed, did you not call me to you and command, if the devil called, to tell him my lady slept?
1162	And while I bowed to the wife and gave greeting, I thought I saw Pilate give Miriam a significant glance, as if to say,"Is he not all I promised?"
1162	And you next, de Goncourt?
1162	And-- er-- excuse me for asking a personal question-- what are you going to do about it?"
1162	Another clue: when was Hideyoshi the Shogun of Japan?
1162	Anyway, what have you got to be afraid of?"
1162	As Confucius said long ago:"When we are so ignorant of life, can we know death?"
1162	Both experiences were equally real-- or else how did I remember them?
1162	But how describe emotion in words?
1162	But how?
1162	But the spirit of you, that which can not die, where will it go when your body is dead?"
1162	But what bearing has the Constitution on constitutional lawyers when they want to put the notorious Professor Darrell Standing out of the way?
1162	But what did I reek?
1162	But what was one to do?
1162	But-- and here was the problem, and Morrell had not warned me: should I also will my head to be dead?
1162	Canst tell me where red wine is sold?
1162	Corn?
1162	Could this particular content of his boy brain be utterly eliminated?
1162	D''ye get it?
1162	Dear cotton- woolly citizen, do you know what that means?
1162	Did I say young?
1162	Did he believe my fabled birth?
1162	Did you hear, Timothy?"
1162	Do n''t you know everybody has to bury their dead as they traipse along?
1162	Do n''t you see, Jake?
1162	Do n''t you see?
1162	Do n''t you see?
1162	Do you hear?
1162	Do you understand?
1162	For instance, how possibly, out of my present life''s experience, could I know anything about_ kimchi_?
1162	For was not I equally a part of God''s plan, along with this heap of rocks upjutting in the solitude of ocean?
1162	Gently I added:"But why all this fuss and fury for a mere man''s life?
1162	Get my drive?
1162	Had we not shared it for forty years?
1162	Have I not said that I was a gay- hearted, golden, bearded giant of an irresponsible boy that had never grown up?
1162	Have you a wish?"
1162	Have you ever seen a colt or a calf throw up its heels and dash madly about the pasture from sheer excess of vitality and spirits?
1162	Have you ever seen canvas tarpaulins or rubber blankets with brass eyelets set in along the edges?
1162	Have you not heard?
1162	He smiled that thin- lipped smile of his, and queried:"How like you the Lady Om?"
1162	How did these things come to me?
1162	I, too, bow to the gods, to all gods, for I do believe in all gods, else how came all gods to be?"
1162	If I did so, no matter what befell the spirit of Darrell Standing, would not the body of Darrell Standing be for ever dead?
1162	If a boy had had these memories, were they irretrievably lost when he had grown to manhood?
1162	In the end, did I say?
1162	Inefficient?
1162	Inefficient?
1162	Is that right?"
1162	It was a simple message, namely:"Standing, are you there?"
1162	It was farewell, I knew; for what chance had creatures so feeble as we to win alive over those surf- battered rocks to the higher rocks beyond?
1162	It was offensive, true, but what could poor sea- cunies do?
1162	Kim?
1162	Mind?
1162	My arms with which to work, my back with which to bend and lift, my hands cunning to clutch and hold-- were not these parts too in God''s plan?
1162	Nay, just beyond yon peach- tree?
1162	News?
1162	Now how do I know that?
1162	Now is that chess like our kind of chess?"
1162	Now what do I know?
1162	Now, what''s he followin''us up for through this God- forsaken country?"
1162	Of what use is this thing?
1162	Other lives?
1162	Other worlds?
1162	Pinched?
1162	Quick?
1162	Savages?
1162	Silly, is n''t it?
1162	Supposin''I am killed?"
1162	The Emperor swallowed and his lips twitched ere he asked:"How explain you this?"
1162	The poor man-- why should I deny him that solace?
1162	The work surely was going on, but with what results?
1162	Then whence?
1162	Then who put it into your mind?"
1162	Then why could not these other- world memories of the boy resurrect?
1162	There?
1162	Was anybody else going on with it, I wondered; and if so, with what success?
1162	Was it vacation or sickness?
1162	Was this island situated in the far South Pacific or the far South Atlantic?
1162	What cared Pilate for a man''s life?--for many men''s lives?
1162	What could I do?
1162	What could old Johannes Maartens do, with a bevy of laughing girls about him, tweaking his nose, pinching his arms, tickling his ribs till he pranced?
1162	What could the dolt do but grudgingly accept the amends I so freely proffered him?
1162	What did the philosophers whisper about so long ago?"
1162	What if they did unite, afterward, in averring that the break had been planned by Winwood?
1162	What image of a bishop, for instance, could possibly form in his mind when I rapped our code- sign for_ bishop_?
1162	What is it like-- your immortality?"
1162	What made Pie- face Jones lay off a week?
1162	What shall I be when I live again?
1162	What was Captain Jamie to do?
1162	What''s the man doing in the front of the other crowd you said was walking along?"
1162	Whence came in me, Darrell Standing, the red pulse of wrath that has wrecked my life and put me in the condemned cells?
1162	Where did Smith get that black eye?
1162	Where is the dynamite?"
1162	Where, now, are the crumbling rock- cliffs of old Egypt where once I laired me like a wild beast while I dreamed of the City of God?
1162	Who else knows corn?
1162	Why do they put the black cap over the head and the face of the victim ere they drop him through the trap?
1162	Why not me?"
1162	Why should I and mine not be fat from the rice in the same way?
1162	Why should it not?
1162	Why was Wilson, on the night shift for only ten days, transferred elsewhere?
1162	Wo n''t you believe me when I tell you I did n''t invent it?"
1162	Yet, if they were dreams, dreamed then, whence the substance of them?
1162	and what could a poor sea- cuny do?
1162	to make of the Messiah a false Messiah?
41128	Foolish girl,replied Kadambari, with a smile,"how should my adamantine heart break if it has not broken at this sight?
41128	Surely,I reflected,"Kama himself teaches this play of the eye, though generally after a long happy love, else whence comes this ascetic''s gaze?
41128	What more,said she,"can this unhappy man tell me?
41128	''"''"How can he have forms?"
41128	''"''Impelled by these thoughts I advanced, and bowing to the second young ascetic, his companion, I asked:"What is the name of his Reverence?
41128	''"''Or what could there be harder to tell than this very thing, which is supposed to be impossible to hear or say?
41128	''"''To these words he replied, with some shame:"Dear Kapiñjala, why dost thou thus misunderstand me?
41128	''"''With a slight smile, he replied:"Maiden, what needs this question?
41128	''"What shall I say?"
41128	''Am I dear to thee?''
41128	''But the hermits, looking on me, asked him as he rested:"Whence was this little parrot brought?"
41128	''How could she be here, my beloved?''
41128	''How has my lord reached this place?
41128	''Sire,''replied he,''what have I not eaten?
41128	''Where a man hath known his greatest happiness, there is his home, even if it be the forest.1( 642) And where else have I known such joy as here?
41128	''Why,''thought he,''did not the Creator make all my senses into sight, or what noble deed has my eye done that it may look on her unchecked?
41128	( 111) Why should I say more?
41128	( 128) And how in thy presence could any of thy followers, or anyone else, offend?
41128	( 235) What fortresses untaken, for thee to take?
41128	( 291) When he had thus spoken, Pundarika said to me with a slight smile:"Ah, curious maiden, why didst thou take the trouble to ask this?
41128	( 294)''"''And entering the maidens''dwelling, I began straightway to ask myself in my grief at his loss:"Am I really back, or still there?
41128	( 307) I will only ask this question: Is this course you have begun taught by your gurus, or read in the holy books?
41128	( 308) Who, forsooth, is this Love- god?
41128	( 323) Cruel demon Love, evil and pitiless, what shameful deed hast thou brought to pass?
41128	( 328) Fearest thou not the reproach of men in that thou goest, deserting me, thy handmaid, without cause?
41128	( 337) Why should one so noble as thou deign to look on or speak with me, the doer of that monstrous crime, the slaughter of a Brahman?''
41128	( 349)''"When she had finished her prayers, Mahaçveta asked Taralika,''Didst thou see my dear Kadambari well?
41128	( 350) How should I fulfil the desire of Love, poisonous, pitiless, unkind, who has brought my dear friend to so sad a plight?
41128	( 38) But what need of further words?
41128	( 430) And are all her retinue well, with Tamalika and Keyuraka?''
41128	( 478) Else where was my approach to the land of the immortals, in my vain hunt for the Kinnaras?
41128	( 479) Then in the evening he asked Keyuraka,"What thinkest thou?
41128	( 480) Or shall I again behold her face, with its eyes like a timid fawn''s?"
41128	( 508)''Do I not know well''said he,''all that you urge for my departure?
41128	( 567) For him I neglected all other ties; and now, when he is dead, how canst thou ask me to live?
41128	( 592) Have ye seen him?"
41128	( 94) But what need of more?
41128	Ah, wicked, evil, wanton Mahaçveta, how had he harmed thee?
41128	Alas, to what refuge shall I flee?
41128	Am I alone, or with my maidens?
41128	Am I awake or asleep?
41128	Am I silent, or beginning to speak?
41128	And if this be so, what must I do, and what must I say in his presence?"
41128	And is the world of mortals pleasant?''
41128	And so, when I asked her,"Princess, what means this?"
41128	And was there any talk about me?''
41128	And what has Indra gained by his lordship of the three worlds if he did not mount this back, broad as Mount Meru?
41128	And what union could there be between the dead and the living?
41128	And when the king had said this, Kumarapalita, with a slight smile, replied:''Where is the wonder?
41128	And whence in the world of men could there arise such harmonies of heavenly minstrelsy?
41128	And whereby hath thy body, though formed of the five gross elements, put on this pure whiteness?
41128	And wherefore in thy fresh youth, tender as a flower, has this vow been taken?
41128	And whither goes she?''
41128	And why are thy jewelled anklets, with their murmur like teals on the lake of love, not graced with the touch of thy lotus- feet?
41128	And why dost thou, erst so gay, wear in vain a face whose adornment is washed away with flowing tears?
41128	And why is there no device painted on thy breast like the deer on the moon?
41128	And why is this hand, with its petal- like cluster of soft fingers, exalted into an ear- jewel, as though it were a rosy lotus?
41128	And why is this waist of thine bereft of the music of the girdle thou hast laid aside?
41128	And why, too, is she brought to suspense by these too flattering speeches?''
41128	Angrily the maina began:''Princess Kadambari, why dost thou not restrain this wretched, ill- mannered, conceited bird from following me?
41128	Are these things pleasures or pains?"
41128	At my words Kapiñjala replied:"Princess, what can I say?
41128	At these words, in a voice choked by wrath, I exclaimed:''Wretch, how has a thunderbolt failed to strike thy head in the utterance of these thy words?
41128	Bewildered what to do, I cried to Taralika:"Knowest thou not?
41128	Bid her enter?''
41128	Bright in strength, why so confused?
41128	Bright with youth, why rest thy weight against us?
41128	But again I thought,''What avails dwelling on this useless thought?
41128	But how could a woman, tender of nature as a young çirisha- blossom, show such boldness, especially one so young as I?
41128	But is it fitting in the Princess not to restrain her giddy slave?
41128	But thou who hast done all rightly, what duty of love hast thou left undone, that thou weepest?
41128	But weeping women replied:"Why ask?
41128	But what can I do towards Brahma, from whom there is no appeal?
41128	By my life I swear to thee I am put to shame by even my own heart''s knowledge of my story; how much more by another''s?
41128	By what discourtesy has he vexed that lotus- soft heart of thine, that none should vex?
41128	By whom have the raised hands of salutation, soft as young lotuses, not been placed on the head?
41128	By whose brows, encircled with golden bands, have the floors of his halls not been polished?
41128	Can it be ascertained as presented by his beauty, or by my own mind, or by love, or by youth or affection, or by any other causes?
41128	Citraratha, however, said:''Why, when we have palaces of our own, do we feast in the forest?
41128	Courteously raising my hands, I reverently replied:( 297)''Wherefore say this?
41128	Devoid of self- control, why run before thine elders?
41128	Divided between joy and grief, she paid homage to his feet, and replied:"Blessed Kapiñjala, am I so devoid of virtue that I could forget thee?
41128	Do I weep or hold back my tears?
41128	Does a fire not burn when fed on sandal- wood?
41128	Envious girl, why block up the window?
41128	Filled with amazement, Candrapida replied:''What means this, Madalekha?
41128	For Modesty censured her:''Light one, what hast thou begun?''
41128	For by thy present grief, what is effected or what won?
41128	For how else could such a storehouse of learning become straightway unavailing?
41128	For in a heart worn by a friend''s sorrow, what hope is there of joy, what contentment, what pleasures or what mirth?
41128	For to one so adamantine as to have seen love in all his power, and yet to have lived through this, what can mere speaking of it matter?
41128	For what has this bright home of glory and penance to do with the stirrings of love that meaner men welcome?
41128	For what is hard for the pitiless?
41128	For what is thy hope of happiness in such things as are honoured by the base, but blamed by the good?
41128	For what will not hope achieve?
41128	For when was the moon ever beheld by any without moonlight, or a lotus- pool without a lotus, or a garden without creeper?
41128	For where is thy age?
41128	For who will ever, even in a dream, behold again this place haunted by the gods?''
41128	For why speak of beings endowed with sense when, if it so please him, he can bring together even things without sense?
41128	For why?
41128	Friend, where is thine old love to me?
41128	From what tree is this garland woven?
41128	Has any wrong been done by me, or by any in thy service?
41128	Has anything been said that could hurt him by my father or Çukanasa?"
41128	He, however, started up hastily without replying, and with the cry,"Monster, whither goest thou with my friend?"
41128	How came thine attainment of the Vedas, and thine acquaintance with the Çastras, and thy skill in the fine arts?
41128	How can I cover this error?
41128	How canst thou now suddenly leave me, and go thy way like a stranger on whom my eyes had never rested?
41128	How didst thou endure the tedious restraint of thy gurus?
41128	How do I even breathe but by strong effort?
41128	How far did he follow us?"
41128	How far off is he?''
41128	How is he named?
41128	How long didst thou see him?
41128	How long wert thou there?
41128	How many days wert thou there?
41128	How old art thou, and how came this bondage of a cage, and the falling into the hands of a Candala maiden, and thy coming hither?''
41128	How otherwise could there be such grace in one who lives in weary penance, beauty''s destroyer?"
41128	How should he be here?"
41128	How should so great a happiness fall to our lot?
41128	How were you and the retinue employed?
41128	How wert thou not ashamed to send so cruel a message?
41128	I knew not what to do, and asked Taralika,"Seest thou not, Taralika, how confused is my mind?
41128	If caught, what is the good?
41128	If from a search for reason, how many things rest only on tradition, and are yet seen to be true?
41128	Ill- behaved girl, why thus weary thyself?
41128	In what occupation has the Gandharva princess spent the time?
41128	Insatiable, how long wilt thou look?
41128	Is not the submarine fire the fiercer in the water that is wo nt to quench fire?
41128	Is the race honoured by thy birth, lady, that of the Maruts, or Rishis, or Gandharvas, or Guhyakas, or Apsarases?
41128	Is this fitting for thee even to imagine, much less to see or tell?
41128	Is this joy or sorrow, longing or despair, misfortune or gladness, day or night?
41128	Is this the fruit of our meeting, that my heart, tender as a lotus filament, is now crushed?
41128	Is this, I pray, the conduct of noble men?
41128	It may be asked What is the value of''Kadambari''for European readers?
41128	Madalekha therefore replied:''Prince, what shall I say?
41128	Moreover, in one of so delicate a nature what does not tend to pain?
41128	Moreover, what is he laughing at as he talks to Vaiçampayana, so that the circle of space is whitened with his bright teeth?
41128	Nay, more, thou hast conquered our hearts; what is left for us to give thee?
41128	Night, showest thou no mercy?
41128	Now, all auspicious omens which come to us foretell the near approach of joy; and what other cause of joy can there be than this?
41128	Of what ascetic is he the son?
41128	Or by what skill, or device, or means, or support, or thought, or solace, may he yet live?''
41128	Or dost thou dwell in disguise, wearing the form only of a bird, and where didst thou formerly dwell?
41128	Say, whither, without thee, shall I go?
41128	Seest thou not the pain produced in her mind by the breezes of the fans?
41128	Self- respect reproached her:''Gandharva Princess, how is this fitting for thee?''
41128	Simplicity mocked her:''Where has thy childhood gone before its day was over?''
41128	So saying, she ceased; and, with a long and passionate sigh, the king spoke thus:''"''My queen, what can be done in a matter decreed by fate?
41128	Steadfastness cried shame on her:''Whence comes thine unsteadiness of nature?''
41128	Tell us from the very beginning the whole history of thy birth-- in what country, and how wert thou born, and by whom was thy name given?
41128	Tell us, therefore, what he has done, who was he, and who will he be in another birth?"
41128	The king, whose curiosity was aroused, looked at the chiefs around him, and with the words''Why not?
41128	The likeness of spirit between these two leads to the question, Had Bana, like Spenser, any purpose, ethical or political, underlying his story?
41128	Then I rebuked that string of pearls, saying:"Ah, wicked one, couldst not even thou have preserved his life till my coming?"
41128	Then her betel- nut bearer, Makarika, who was always near her, said to the king:''My lord, how could any fault, however slight, be committed by thee?
41128	Then she tenderly touched Kadambari, saying"Be comforted, my mother,[ 350] for without thee, who could have preserved the body of my son Candrapida?
41128	Then the latter at last spoke falteringly:"What can one so wretched tell thee?
41128	Thou art lord of our life; what can we offer thee?
41128	Thou art one with my own heart, and I ask thee to tell me what I should now do?
41128	Thou by thy sight hast made our life worth having; how can we reward thy coming?
41128	Thou hast already bestowed the great favour of thy presence; what return could we make?
41128	Thou who feignest coyness, what mean thy crafty glances?
41128	Thou whose eyes art filled with love, seest thou not thy friends?
41128	Thou, erst so soft of speech, from whom hast thou learnt to speak unkindness and utter reproach?
41128	Thus speaking, he retired, and the king asked Vaiçampayana:''Hast thou in the interval eaten food sufficient and to thy taste?''
41128	To this speech I replied:"Mad girl, what is love to me?
41128	To whom but thee should I listen?
41128	To whom can I tell this folly of my undisciplined senses,( 378) and where shall I go, consumed by Kama, the five- arrowed god?
41128	To whom else can I complain, or tell my humiliation, or give a share in my woe?
41128	Was it a special boon given thee?
41128	What ails me that I can not restrain myself?
41128	What bright deed of merit was done by Earth that she has won thee as lord?
41128	What can I do?
41128	What can she do now?
41128	What caused thy remembrance of a former birth?
41128	What continents unappropriated, for thee to appropriate?
41128	What did he say to thee?
41128	What did he say, and what didst thou reply?
41128	What does the moon want with Pundarika?
41128	What else can be done?
41128	What favour did the princess show thee?
41128	What has fate begun?
41128	What has happened?
41128	What is Ujjayini like, and how far off is it?
41128	What is her name?
41128	What is the land of Bharata?
41128	What is this that has befallen me?
41128	What kings have not been humbled?
41128	What matters it whether I catch the pair of Kinnaras or not?
41128	What need of words?
41128	What offence has been committed?
41128	What other course is there?
41128	What refuge shall I seek?
41128	What regions unsubdued, for thee to subdue?
41128	What remedy is there?
41128	What talk was there, and what conversation arose?
41128	What talk was there?
41128	What to me were home, mother, father, kinsfolk, followers?
41128	What treasures ungained, for thee to gain?
41128	What was I to do?
41128	What were Mahaçveta and Madalekha doing?
41128	What will my father and mother and the Gandharvas say when they hear this tale?
41128	What, indeed, could I say?
41128	What, then, shall I do?
41128	Whence comes this exceeding skill that tells the heart''s longing wordlessly by a glance alone?"
41128	Whence comes this hitherto unknown assault of the senses, which so transforms thee?
41128	Whence comes this thy great hardness?
41128	Whence could one so hard- hearted feel grief?
41128	Whence have the parts of this exceeding beauty been gathered?
41128	Where is his former penance, and where his present state?
41128	Where is thine old firmness?
41128	Where that smiling welcome that never failed me?"
41128	Where thy calm of mind, thine inherited holiness, thy carelessness of earthly things?
41128	Where thy conquest of the senses?
41128	Where thy self- control?
41128	Wherefore hast thou not returned?
41128	Whither goest thou, pitilessly leaving me alone and protectorless?
41128	Who am I?
41128	Who but thee could give advice at this time, or could attempt to restrain my wandering?
41128	Who have not accepted his staff of office?
41128	Who have not drunk in with the crocodiles of their crests, the radiance of his feet, like pure streams?
41128	Who have not raised the cry of"Hail!"?
41128	Who have not waved his cowries?
41128	Who in his senses would, even if happy, make up his mind to undertake even a slight matter that would end in pain?
41128	Who is there in this world who is not changed by youth?
41128	Who is there that fears him not?
41128	Who is there that fears not the wicked, pitiless in causeless enmity; in whose mouth calumny hard to bear is always ready as the poison of a serpent?
41128	Who most remembers us, and whose affection is greatest?''
41128	Who was he in a former birth, and how was he born in the form of a bird?
41128	Who were thy father and mother?
41128	Who will speak to her or look at her again, and who will mention her name?''
41128	Whom shall I implore?
41128	Whose crest- jewels have not scraped his footstool?
41128	Whose daughter is she?
41128	Why dost thou, like a man of low caste, fail to restrain the turmoil of thy soul?
41128	Why has so long a time passed since we have seen thee?
41128	Why have I been so mad as to leave my followers behind and come so far?
41128	Why should I tell thee of those who have themselves chosen their lords?
41128	Why showest thou no pity?
41128	Why speakest thou thus?
41128	Why tell thy parents?
41128	Why then doubt concerning this?
41128	Why this needless talk of death as a necessary condition?
41128	Why toilest thou thus, like perverse fate, in so unmeet an employment, in that thou wastest in stern penance a body tender as a garland?
41128	Why wert thou not born as a parrot?
41128	Why, slender one, art thou unadorned?
41128	Why, then, this ceremony?''
41128	Why, then,''thought he again,''should I thus weary my mind in vain?
41128	Will Kadambari support life till we arrive?
41128	With mingled scorn and pity he replied:''Wilt thou not even now restrain thine old impatience?
41128	With whom shall I wander, to whom speak, with whom hold converse?
41128	Yet if I could not be united to those I loved in past lives why should I yet live?
41128	Yet think not, my son, that I will live without thee, for how could I thus even face thy father?
41128	[ 283] Thou wilt not therefore surely place on the fire of grief that life so precious and so hardly preserved?''
41128	[ 334] In his utter love madness, he says:''Tell me, Patralekha, how a madman can be rejected?''
41128	[ 97] Does this refer to the reflection of the sky in its clear water?
41128	and my mother and all the zenana?''
41128	and then, waiting a short time, she began afresh:''How is King Tarapida, how Queen Vilasavati, how the noble Çukanasa?
41128	and where thy superhuman power and thy capacity of reaching boundless knowledge?
41128	and why has not the stream of lac fallen on thy feet like early sunlight on rosy lotus- buds?
41128	and why is he coming hither?''
41128	and why is that slender neck of thine, fair- limbed queen, not adorned with a rope of pearls as the crescent on Çiva''s brow by the heavenly stream?
41128	and will she do as I said?''
41128	how has he become so close a friend to Mahaçveta?
41128	how much less one like me, whose heart is struck down by deep grief?
41128	if missed, what is the harm?
41128	or how bring an ill- omened mourning to his departure to heaven?
41128	or how weep at the joyous moment when, like the dust of his feet, I may follow him?
41128	or who else in the world is a friend like thee?
46343	''Ah, I was in command of archers, was I?'' 46343 ''And for what ceremony had I come from the Palais de Justice with my hundred and twenty archers?''
46343	''And has nothing uncommon happened? 46343 ''And now what are they doing, Cartouche?''
46343	''And now,''said I, hiding my mortification,''you''ve told me what you think of my character: what do you think of my handwriting?'' 46343 ''And the soil of this Place de l''Hôtel- de- Ville?
46343	''And when did this happen?'' 46343 ''And why do you shrink from these places and from this house in Vielle- du- Temple Street?''
46343	''And why not?'' 46343 ''Are there any spots in Paris that you have n''t been able to cross?''
46343	''Because of the paving- stones?'' 46343 ''But Cartouche was silent: why are you yelling?''
46343	''But why do n''t you arrest me? 46343 ''But why without taking our bearings?''
46343	''Corpses?'' 46343 ''Do n''t you know that this was the Place de Grève?''
46343	''Do you remember the night you were on duty at the Palais- Royal and stole the Regent''s silver- gilt candlesticks?''
46343	''Do you think I''m colour- blind?'' 46343 ''Have you often crossed it?''
46343	''How long do you think you could be hungry?'' 46343 ''Is it far from here?''
46343	''Is that so?'' 46343 ''Is that you,_ Simon the Auvergnat_?''
46343	''Really? 46343 ''Really?
46343	''Was I very young?'' 46343 ''Well, you wo n''t be angry, if I''m frank with you?''
46343	''What is it he''s done?'' 46343 ''What on earth is that?''
46343	''What things?'' 46343 ''What would you do if you were?''
46343	''What''s the matter now, Cartouche?'' 46343 ''What?
46343	''Where are you going?'' 46343 ''Who told you that piece of idiocy?''
46343	''You advise me to?'' 46343 ''You?
46343	A good-- what?
46343	Accomplished? 46343 Ah, what is it?"
46343	Am I really very sorry? 46343 And how long is it before we come back into another body?"
46343	And next?
46343	And then?
46343	And what am I to tell him?
46343	And what are we going to do with them?
46343	And what did he say to that?
46343	And what else is there in the pockets of conjurors?
46343	And what has happened?
46343	And what''s that-- the base of your column?
46343	And where is it to be found?
46343	And you''re not afraid of the eyes of a dead calf which look at you?
46343	Are the four ladies here?
46343	Are you quite sure it was in its place last night?
46343	Are you sure?
46343	But can we really expect the soil in which the treasures were buried to have remained undisturbed all these years-- over two hundred?
46343	But how on earth did Nadar take my photograph?
46343	But is this really an eighteenth- century paper? 46343 But what are these things you have dreamt of but never seen?"
46343	Ca n''t you see that Signor Petito is in a hurry? 46343 Could you tell me the exact age of this document?"
46343	Did n''t you try to stop him?
46343	Do I ever dream? 46343 Do n''t you perceive the thick bars across the windows?"
46343	Do they express pity for him in the books?
46343	Do we look like Germans?
46343	Do you know how much it is worth, Signor Petito, the_ Child''s_ head? 46343 Have n''t you got beyond that?"
46343	Have you ever heard anyone speak of someone called the_ Child_, Adolphe?
46343	He was going to answer when his wife interfered and said:''What are you talking about, Theophrastus? 46343 How are you, Ambrose?"
46343	How are you, Theophrastus? 46343 How are you?"
46343	How could I have learnt to write unless I knew how to read? 46343 How did that come about?"
46343	How did_ my portrait_ get into this house?
46343	I notice that whenever you say,''Is that clear?'' 46343 I told Adolphe all this; and he said,''Are there any other places from which you shrink?''
46343	I was dismayed; but in a flash of genius I cried:''What is evil?
46343	If one showed you a piece of paper you could tell the age of it?
46343	In what train?
46343	Indeed? 46343 Is n''t it?"
46343	M. Longuet appeared to reflect a little; then he said:''Then, if we continued to live in the Catacombs, we should end by no longer having eyes?'' 46343 Never?"
46343	Now why, I wonder, did I say''_ You remember_''? 46343 Of many brigands?"
46343	Plainly M. de la Nox did not expect that yell, for he said in a tone of surprise,''Why did you yell like that, Cartouche?'' 46343 So you''re going to the Porkers too?"
46343	Sometimes? 46343 The violet cat is on the tea- table?"
46343	Then Theophrastus said,''What are you waiting for?'' 46343 Then he returned to his fixed idea:"''And in the course of our peregrinations is there any chance of our coming across a way out?
46343	There was a pause as M. de la Nox let Cartouche continue on his painful way; then he said:''And where are you now, Cartouche?'' 46343 Three thousand?
46343	To the Porkers?
46343	We had come just to the end of Paris Street-- you know the passage we call Paris Street at the Conciergerie?
46343	Well, what about them?
46343	What Black Feather? 46343 What am I waiting for?
46343	What are you doing, Marceline?
46343	What did he do then?
46343	What do you mean?
46343	What do you think of that?
46343	What do you want me to do with them?
46343	What else?
46343	What else?
46343	What had we been doing? 46343 What is it?
46343	What is it?
46343	What misfortune?
46343	What on earth''s that?
46343	What would the Signora Petito think, if you came home without your ears?
46343	What?
46343	Where am I?
46343	Where are you dragging me to?
46343	Where is it?
46343	Who was I? 46343 Who will ever be able to tell the age of that soil; who will ever be able to tell you the age of those stones?
46343	Will not some of the noble rich buy a million copies and see that they are given to those who need them?
46343	You agree that_ Cartouche_ is your real name and not a nickname?
46343	You are sure of it?
46343	You do n''t understand? 46343 You''re really called all that?"
46343	Your information is correct?
46343	Your portrait?
46343	_ In the train which is going to pass under your nose._"What is the train which is going to pass under my nose?
46343	_ Who could be surer than I?_said Theophrastus calmly.
46343	''And what is your conception of my character, Adolphe?''
46343	''Are you quite ignorant of the experimental method?
46343	''Do you want to cross the Place de l''Hôtel- de- Ville?''
46343	''How do they see?''
46343	''Is there really a chance that in the course of our peregrinations we shall come across subterranean piles?''
46343	''What is Signor Petito up to at Saint- Germain?
46343	''Why should we not believe that in quitting the body which it animates at the moment, it must animate several others in succession?''
46343	''You died in 1721 at the Gallows of Montfaucon?
46343	A glass of ratafia?
46343	Adolphe said nothing; and when he was baiting his hook, Theophrastus said, with a touch of impatience in his tone,"Well?"
46343	After a while it grew serene again; and M. de la Nox said:"''And what are you doing now, Cartouche?''
46343	After all, does it matter what you have seen,_ since you are dead_?
46343	Am I frightening you?
46343	Am I to go back to my mother, or are you going to do it?"
46343	And if I did n''t know how to write, how could I have written the document I hid in the cellars of the Conciergerie?"
46343	And what does it remember if not that it has lived before, and that it has lived in another body?
46343	And what had become of the beginning of the train, that is to say, of the engine, the tender, the dining- car, and the three corridor carriages?
46343	And you do n''t know what that_ rt_ stands for?
46343	Are there many ways out of the Catacombs?''
46343	Are they fishes?''
46343	Are you going to teach me about Straw Alley?
46343	Are you going to teach the guide his business when you''ve never been to the Conciergerie before in your life?''
46343	Are you sure he has n''t gone out?"
46343	Are you sure?
46343	Below it were these words:"Of what use are brands, and torches, and spectacles To him who shuts his eyes that he may not see?"
46343	Besides, was I sure?
46343	Big and well made?"
46343	But at your trial--""Did I have a trial?"
46343	But how comes it that this document, which is dated 1721, is, in every part of it which is visible, in your handwriting?"
46343	But how do you catch them?''
46343	But how many more to kill?...
46343	But how on earth does it affect this business which is worrying us?"
46343	But how the deuce am I to do it?
46343	But is it my fault?...
46343	But what little railway station?
46343	But what of that?
46343	But where am I?...
46343	But why have you gone into the corner?
46343	But, as a matter of fact, you were, according to the poet Granval, a man who knew you well and chanted your glory--""My what?"
46343	CHAPTER II THE SCRAP OF PAPER What did happen?
46343	Ca n''t these silly fools see that the names are on the tip of my tongue, and wo n''t come off it?
46343	Ca n''t they see that if I do n''t denounce them, it''s because I ca n''t move the tip of my tongue?
46343	Consequently your express has vanished-- melted-- flown away?
46343	Consequently, there''s no longer any express?
46343	Could I have done otherwise?
46343	Did he really say''_ Zounds_''?"
46343	Did that scrap of paper_ really_ exist?
46343	Did you not wish to see your wife happy?
46343	Do you notice anything remarkable about it?"
46343	Do you understand everything, except that you have n''t seen the train pass K?
46343	Do you understand?"
46343	Does he in the old eighteenth- century fashion police Bagdad, or does he build up a rubber stamp business in Chicago?
46343	Does the unhappy Theophrastus, luckless exile from the Paris he loves, wander through the far East or the far West?
46343	Had I not, before falling into this hole, bought half a dozen electric lamps of the latest pattern?
46343	Have I made this first proof clear?"
46343	Have you experienced no odd feelings?
46343	Have you remembered nothing?''
46343	He had ceased to ask,"Why am I in this house in Huchette Street?"
46343	He sat down with an air of supreme content, and said proudly:"_ What do you think of that, Marie- Antoinette?_""Why do you call me Marie- Antoinette?"
46343	He sat down with an air of supreme content, and said proudly:"_ What do you think of that, Marie- Antoinette?_""Why do you call me Marie- Antoinette?"
46343	He says in a low voice, so low that she does not even hear him,"Do you hear?"
46343	He stood upright again with an air of relief and said:"''What are you doing now, Cartouche?''
46343	Here?--what the deuce was here anyway except water?
46343	His next question was:"''And where are you now, Cartouche?''
46343	Houdry, the butcher''s wife, came to the back door and said to the assistant:"What''s your master doing this morning?
46343	How can he better console her than by replacing you?
46343	How did he find his way?
46343	How did he re- enter Paris?
46343	How do you suppose I could have slept on straw in Straw Alley when it was the first time I had ever been in the Conciergerie?
46343	How large are they?''
46343	How many more to kill to be sure of the silence of all?...
46343	However, I''ll do as you want; but just tell me first if Cartouche was as redoubtable as they say: was he a brigand chief?"
46343	I ca n''t sleep two nights running in the same place... Where are the days when I had all Paris on my side?
46343	I said:"''Here are two passages, which are you going to take?''
46343	I was a fine man, was n''t I?
46343	I was mounted on a Spanish horse?''
46343	I-- I was at K; and I am sure that it did not pass at K... consequently...''"''Consequently?...
46343	Incalculable quantities?...
46343	Incalculable?...
46343	Indeed?"
46343	Is it my fault that Cartouche did n''t split?''
46343	Is it my habit to keep things which do n''t belong to me?
46343	Is it the ring of Ravaillac?
46343	Is it the telephone, or the railway, or the motorcars, or the Eiffel Tower?"
46343	Is n''t it red?''
46343	Is n''t the date false?
46343	Is that clear to you?"
46343	Is that clear?"
46343	Is that so?"
46343	It was all quite clear; had he not before slipping out of the study moved the cat?
46343	It''s Straw Alley!_''""He said that?
46343	It''s my belief, on the contrary, that I was a man of quality-- what do you say to a favourite of the Regent?''
46343	Longuet?"
46343	Longuet?"
46343	Longuet?''
46343	Longuet?''
46343	Longuet?''
46343	Mifroid?''
46343	No?...
46343	Of what is he dreaming, unhappy wretch, that again and again he shakes his luckless head?
46343	On the bank of what river did M. Longuet lay his clothes?
46343	On the way Theophrastus said:"Tell me, Adolphe: what was I like?
46343	One day you went with some of your school- fellows to Saint- Laurent fair--""Look here, Adolphe: could n''t you put it differently?
46343	One eye?''
46343	Or Belle- Hélène who keeps the Harp tavern?"
46343	Or even Blanche, the Bustler?
46343	Presently he nodded his head sagely and said:"Do you ever dream, Theophrastus?"
46343	Pretty- Milkmaid, of Pussycat?
46343	Savard was smoking his pipe on his door- step; and Duchâtelet said to him,"Is there anyone upstairs?"
46343	Shut up in the Châtelet... And his son?...
46343	Station B:"What can have happened?
46343	Suppose I lit the light?"
46343	Suppose I went and opened the door on to the landing, and called the porter?"
46343	Taburet, are n''t I right?
46343	That means?
46343	That means?
46343	The Other, then, was a man of energy?''
46343	The day of my wedding with Marie- Antoinette?
46343	The guide set the party in motion; then he said:"You are French?"
46343	Then he whispered:"''Where are you now, Cartouche?''
46343	Theophrastus paused in his reading and said,"What on earth do they mean by their new Cartouche?
46343	Theophrastus read:"Is Cartouche, then, not dead?
46343	Theophrastus turned on him with a savage air, and cried,"What the deuce has it got to do with you?"
46343	Theophrastus, who took a pride in showing himself well- informed, said to the guide:"Was n''t it here that the Girondins had their last meal?
46343	Was it from fear?
46343	Was it not a fact that already things of which in my present existence I was ignorant, were rising from my past?
46343	Was it that he had sunk into a deeper sleep?
46343	Was it that the Theophrastus of to- day had any connection with the Theophrastus of twenty years ago?
46343	Well then, in clipping his ears, did I not demonstrate that there was no need to kill him?
46343	What are we to do?
46343	What can it mean?"
46343	What did certain phrases I had uttered at the Conciergerie mean?
46343	What do my fingers want?
46343	What do you mean?"
46343	What good wind blows you here?"
46343	What has become of my pocket- book?"
46343	What have you found out?"
46343	What have you seen?...
46343	What is good?
46343	What is that that is thrusting, thrusting forth?
46343	What is the origin of the old Frankish palace?
46343	What is the thought of my fingers?
46343	What is this theory of transformation except that living beings_ transform themselves into one another_?
46343	What is three quarters of a mile of bones out of three hundred and ten miles of Catacombs?''
46343	What should he do?
46343	What the deuce is that infernal violet cat up to?"
46343	What was then my name?
46343	What were those crimson flames below, in whose glow he walked, doing?
46343	What will you have to drink?
46343	What would_ you_ do?
46343	What''s he doing in your house, by the way, that skeleton, instead of resting quietly on Saint- Chaumont Hill?
46343	When I asked what were you waiting for, I meant what are you waiting for to arrest me?''
46343	When he began to deal with the calf''s ears, Theophrastus cried, with angelic delight:"The ears?
46343	When they were under the trees, among the throng of careless strollers, Adolphe said:"You''ve heard of the water- finders?"
46343	Whence does this man, or rather this shadow of a man, this sad shadow of a man, with his hands in his pockets, come?
46343	Where are you going to?
46343	Where are you now, Cartouche?''
46343	Where are you now, Cartouche?''
46343	Where did he go?
46343	Where did this end of a train come from?
46343	Where have I seen it?''
46343	Where in Heaven''s name are we going now?
46343	Where is Uncle Tanton now?
46343	Which First of April?
46343	Who can compare with her?
46343	Who could have believed that pain would be so_ effective_ at the end of two hundred years?''
46343	Who shall ever re- compose it?
46343	Who shall ever repeat it?
46343	Who wants Cartouche?''...
46343	Who was Simon the Auvergnat, whose name had risen twice to my burning lips?
46343	Who will dare to say that they are not retrospective visions of events which have taken place before our present existence?"
46343	Whom does he perceive on the threshold of a cottage at the entrance to the village?...
46343	Why did n''t Cartouche move the tip of his tongue?
46343	Why do n''t the idiots take them off it?
46343	Why do you tear the white locks from your brow?...
46343	Why should he have spoken?
46343	Why that deep groan?
46343	Why then, my dear Signor Petito, are you making that intolerable face?
46343	Why?
46343	Would it not be stupid indeed to devote all my faculties to reviving the Theophrastus of twenty years ago?
46343	You are still awake, are you-- as late as this?"
46343	You died at the Gallows of Montfaucon?''
46343	You know that Marie Antoinette went to her death down that passage?"
46343	You laugh, M. Houdry?
46343	You talk of Reason;_ but what use is Reason in a brain which does not know by which end to take hold of it_?
46343	You understand?
46343	_ Do you understand now?
46343	_ Have you got the carving- knife?_""I ca n''t find the fork,"replied the trembling voice of Marceline.
46343	_ What does that portmanteau contain?_ Theophrastus, his face working with intense emotion, crosses the room to his old friend.
46343	and what was he saying to you?"
46343	at La Belle Hélène''s, who,_ you remember_, kept the Heart tavern?
46343	what have you seen in the drawing- room?...
46343	what is that it lights up?...
5079	A friend of yours, Denzil?
5079	A full- length portrait?
5079	A trustworthy messenger, I hope? 5079 Am I sickening for a fever before I have been forty- eight hours in Cairo?
5079	An appointment with Gervase?
5079	And Frenchmen can be found perhaps who are like Araxes in the number of their loves and infidelities?
5079	And after death?
5079	And are you going?
5079	And as man only?
5079	And have you found out anything about her?
5079	And how many times with the Princess Ziska?
5079	And is he not?
5079	And is the English Press immaculate?
5079	And what do you think?
5079	And what is that?
5079	And what is to be done?
5079	And what of an incarnate devil?
5079	And you think you could tame me?
5079	And you?
5079	Are you afraid?
5079	Are you going mad, Gervase?
5079	Are you going to sketch some picturesque corner of the city?
5079	Are you not well, Monsieur Gervase?
5079	Are you sure of that?
5079	At what hour?
5079	Bother''God save the Queen,''exclaimed Courtney impatiently.--"Look here, you do n''t mean it seriously, do you?"
5079	But why should I paint her so?
5079	But-- do you know the Princess Ziska?
5079	Can I speak to you a moment?
5079	Can it be possible that I love this woman?
5079	Can you not understand? 5079 Come, come, what is all this excitement for?"
5079	Consider, my dear Lady Lyle, is there not something very chaste and beautiful in the aspect of an old maid?
5079	Death, you consider, finishes all? 5079 Did you ever try to conjure with that name?"
5079	Do I? 5079 Do I?"
5079	Do n''t you know your theories are quite out of date? 5079 Do n''t you think she''s made like other women?"
5079	Do you intend to humor them in this instance?
5079	Do you know where her house is?
5079	Do you not realize what folly you are talking? 5079 Do you take me for a child, or a fool?"
5079	Do you think I shall let Gervase escape me? 5079 Enjoying-- er-- er-- a what?--a moonlight stroll?
5079	Et moi?
5079	Forced upon me?
5079	Ghosts?
5079	Gone altogether?
5079	Had you ever any virtues?
5079	Hate you? 5079 Have n''t you?
5079	How about God?
5079	How can a man and woman dead five thousand years ago be of any interest to you?
5079	How can you account for his strangeness-- his roughness-- even to me?
5079	How do we know it exists? 5079 How do you argue it?
5079	How, then, does body exist without soul?
5079	How?
5079	I know nothing myself; how can I? 5079 I suppose I may not inquire how you propose to obtain this satisfaction?"
5079	I thought you might possibly like to go a little further up the Nile?
5079	I wonder what that Nubian has to do with her?
5079	I? 5079 I?
5079	If she were your wife, would you care for her to dance before people?
5079	In order to play the lover of Charmazel?
5079	Is Mr. Gervase in his room?
5079	Is he better to- day?
5079	Is it not?
5079	Is it she who sings that song about the lotus- lily?
5079	Is n''t that a charming little party over there?
5079	Is she not as ripe for love and fit for marriage as any other of her sex?
5079	Is she?
5079	Is that a fact?
5079	La Princesse, ou est elle?
5079	Lady Fulkeward admires the Princess very much, I believe?
5079	Mademoiselle Helen you consider very beautiful?
5079	Maintenant?
5079	Matter? 5079 My''fancy''for her?
5079	No; are you?
5079	No? 5079 Not human?"
5079	Not in the very least? 5079 Nothing beyond?
5079	Nothing... the heat... the air... a trifle, I assure you? 5079 Now, how did you find that out?"
5079	Now,he whispered,"shall I speak or be silent?"
5079	Of life? 5079 Of what else should I think, mon ami?"
5079	Of what? 5079 Of whom else should I speak?"
5079	Oh, it is merely temperament? 5079 Oh, then you are not one of her lovers?"
5079	Oh, what is it?
5079	Oh, you did shake hands?
5079	Oh, you have a soul?
5079	Oh, you think she IS Egyptian then?
5079	Or shall I make love to you?
5079	Ou donc?
5079	Quite psychological, is it not, Doctor? 5079 Shall I begin?"
5079	Shall I paint your picture?
5079	She does? 5079 She told you that, did she?"
5079	She told you that?
5079	Should n''t you? 5079 Something troubles you, Monsieur Gervase?"
5079	Tell me,he said,"have you any recollection of ever having met the Princess Ziska before?"
5079	That is your opinion? 5079 The Princess Ziska,"he echoed,--"Yes?
5079	The Princess is leaving Cairo?
5079	The bas- relief I told you of is just above us,said the Princess then, addressing herself to the Doctor;"would you like to examine it?
5079	The portraits on this old carving have perhaps affected you unpleasantly? 5079 Then do you call the Princess an old maid?"
5079	Then she is really a woman of culture and intelligence?
5079	Then you admit yourself to be cruel and unprincipled?
5079	Then you did think it a little unbecoming?
5079	Then you know the lines--''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy?'' 5079 Then you will have satisfied yourself?"
5079	Then your''scientific ghosts''are positive realities?
5079	Then? 5079 There are certain subjects connected with psychic phenomena on which it is best to be silent; besides, what interest can such things have for you?
5079	There is no Prince Ziska then?
5079	Torture them how, Denzil?
5079	Was he a very distinguished personage?
5079	Well,said the savant presently, after a pause:"Now you have got him, what are you going to do with him?"
5079	Well?
5079	What IS the Light Eternal?
5079	What ails me? 5079 What are they, my dear madam, what are they?"
5079	What are you saying about Denzil?
5079	What cure shall ever be found for love- weariness? 5079 What did I say?
5079	What do you mean? 5079 What do you mean?
5079	What do you mean?
5079	What do you mean?
5079	What do you mean?
5079	What do you say, Denzil?
5079	What do you think of it, eh, Denzil?
5079	What has Araxes to do with you?
5079	What has she been doing with herself?
5079	What horrible thing?
5079	What interest has Rameses?
5079	What is it?
5079	What is it?
5079	What is wrong with me?
5079	What of ambition?
5079	What of the inspiration that lifts a man beyond himself and his material needs, and teaches him to strive after the Highest?
5079	What old laws?
5079	What researches are you engaged upon now?
5079	What she''s made of?
5079	What sort of an appointment?
5079	What''s the matter with them?
5079	What''s the matter with you, Denzil?
5079	When you know I do not believe in the soul, why do you talk to me about it? 5079 Where did you paint the Princess''s picture?"
5079	Who is that?
5079	Who is this that has beautiful eyes?
5079	Who would n''t admire her? 5079 Whom did you say?
5079	Whom he afterwards murdered, you say?
5079	Why not? 5079 Why not?"
5079	Why not?
5079	Why should you entertain these ideas of vengeance against Gervase? 5079 Why, Denzil, is it you?
5079	Why, are n''t you going to stay here a few days?
5079	Why? 5079 Why?"
5079	Will you? 5079 Wo n''t you smoke, Denzil?"
5079	Would you really care to hear it?
5079	Yes, is it not curious?
5079	Yet you do hate me?
5079	You are enjoying a moonlight stroll, Doctor?
5079	You are going to paint her picture?
5079	You are impenitent?
5079	You are speaking of the Princess Ziska?
5079	You believe in Death?
5079	You did?
5079	You do?
5079	You have a moment to spare me?
5079	You have left all the dear English people well at the Gezireh Palace? 5079 You have never been inside?"
5079	You have seen enough of it, I suppose?
5079	You hear?
5079	You intend to be one of the party there then?
5079	You mean to say that you can not paint the Princess''s picture?
5079	You quite believe that, Monsieur Gervase? 5079 You remember,"he went on,"our pleasant times in Scotland?
5079	You seem to know a great deal about her,observed Dr. Dean indulgently,"and why should she not go herself?
5079	You shall-- what?
5079	You think so? 5079 You truly think that?"
5079	You understand?
5079	You view Him in that light?
5079	You will not interfere? 5079 You will not?"
5079	Your intentions are pitiless?
5079	''Do you consider the Princess a proper woman?''
5079	... What has the name to do with me?
5079	... the Princess Ziska?
5079	...""Could it not?"
5079	...""Why should he not?"
5079	Ah!--how did he NOT know her?
5079	Aloud he said--"Why are you not dancing, Miss Muriel?"
5079	Am I the only one who perceives the remarkable similarity of contour and expression?"
5079	And I echo your words most feelingly,--What evil fate sent me to Cairo?
5079	And can you wonder then that I feel as if I could kill you?"
5079	And has He ever interfered?
5079	And how have you succeeded with that charming mysterious person, the Princess Ziska?"
5079	And this madness is mildly described as''love?''"
5079	And whether it is best to be a solitary''maiden- rose''or a Princess Ziska, who shall say?
5079	And who shall blame them?
5079	And why did you place them on guard?
5079	And why?
5079	And yet, why not?
5079	And you will break your sister''s heart as well; perhaps you have n''t thought of that?"
5079	And you?"
5079	Are you a clergyman?"
5079	Are you better?"
5079	Are you determined to run away?"
5079	Are you positive on this point?"
5079	Are you sure?
5079	But a woman grown old, who has outlived all passion and is a mere bundle of fat, or a mummy of skin and bone,--what poetry does her existence suggest?
5079	But do you know what symbol I, as an artist, would employ were I asked to give my idea of Love on my canvas?"
5079	But if I did, what would that have to do with this?"
5079	But of course, you will try again; the Princess will surely give you another sitting?"
5079	But you know my intention?"
5079	But you,--Armand Gervase,--educated, civilized, intellectual, and totally unlike the barbaric Araxes, could not do that, could you?
5079	But, unless you deal the murderer''s blow, the fever will go on increasing till it reaches its extremest height, and then...""And then?"
5079	By the way, have you been asked to her great party next week?"
5079	Death?
5079	Did you tell her that?"
5079	Do n''t look so tragic, my good Denzil,--what ails you now?"
5079	Do n''t you find it so, Doctor?"
5079	Do not men sometimes love vile women?"
5079	Do you actually suppose I have a''passion''for you?"
5079	Do you believe in ghosts?"
5079	Do you like such pretty follies?
5079	Do you not understand?
5079	Do you notice how thoroughly Egyptian the features are?
5079	Do you really think so?
5079	Do you think if all the elements were to combine in a war against me, they should cheat me out of this woman or rob me of her?
5079	Do you think that because a man is strong and famous, he has a right to the love of woman?--a charter to destroy her as he pleases?
5079	Does He interfere when the murderer''s knife descends upon the victim?
5079	Does anyone know who she is?
5079	Et dans ton ame alarmee, Ne sens- tu pas quelque remord?
5079	First of all, let me ask you, do you believe in the existence of Matter?"
5079	Flesh and blood, or cast- iron?
5079	Has he spoken to you to- night?"
5079	Have I seen her by chance thus in her days of poverty, and does her image recall itself vividly now despite her changed surroundings?
5079	Have n''t you noticed how often he has danced with her?"
5079	Have n''t you noticed that?
5079	He paused a moment,--then added:"You remember I told you I was hunting down that warrior of old time, Araxes?"
5079	He paused, and laid one hand kindly on the younger man''s shoulder,"Is it agreed?"
5079	Her dark, disdainful glance flashed on Gervase and Denzil; anon she smiled bewitchingly, and added:"Is it not so?"
5079	Her face, her eyes, are perfectly familiar; where, where have I seen her and played the mad fool with her before?
5079	How came I here?--and why?
5079	How can she appeal to art or sentiment?
5079	How could it be?
5079	How is that?"
5079	How often?"
5079	How shall I make a real beginning of this marvel?"
5079	How was I to know, how was I to guess that this horrible thing would happen?"
5079	How will it-- how CAN it end?"
5079	How will you give me my answer to- morrow?
5079	I ask you what satisfaction does it bring?
5079	I have known both you and your brother ever since you were left little orphan children together; if I can not speak plainly to you, who can?
5079	I hear you are trying to discover traces of Araxes?"
5079	I sketched her as I thought I saw her,--how did this tortured head come on my canvas?"
5079	I wonder now, how long this torpidity in the psychic germ has lasted in you?
5079	I wonder what I shall do with myself now?--haunted and brain- ridden as I am by this woman and her picture?"
5079	I wonder what gives you such an insatiate love of vengeance?"
5079	I wonder where we really met?"
5079	I''m sure YOU have lost your heart to her quite as much as anybody else, have n''t you?"
5079	In Paris?
5079	Into what place have I been decoyed at your bidding?
5079	Is he going to his death?
5079	Is inconstancy to women cruelty and want of principle?
5079	Is n''t it about time we all got ready?"
5079	Is not it so?"
5079	Is that the style you have got yourself up in for tonight?
5079	Is this a trysting- place for love as well as death?--and will she come to me?
5079	It is better that a beautiful woman should die in her beauty than live to become old and tiresome...""You think that?"
5079	It was called''Le Poignard,''do you remember it?"
5079	Lady Fulkeward has decided on that?
5079	Lady Fulkeward was not too tired after her exertions at the ball?
5079	London?
5079	Monsieur Armand Gervase, will you kindly step forward?
5079	Mr. Courtney was speaking about somebody''s beautiful eyes; who is the fair one in question?"
5079	Murray?"
5079	Murray?"
5079	My dear sir, why ask such a question?
5079	My good boy, do you not know that there is something very marvellous in the attraction we call love?
5079	Now, do you understand me?"
5079	Oh, Dr. Dean, have you watched my brother this evening?"
5079	Once only, he thought,"What if I left Egypt now-- at once-- and saw her no more?"
5079	One who knows how to be silent?"
5079	Only one thing grieves me, and that is, that I have, perhaps, unwittingly, in some thoughtless way, given you pain; is it so, Helen?"
5079	Or am I going to mine?"
5079	Or are you made of the same savage and impenitent stuff as composed the once famous yet brutal warrior of old time?
5079	Or what was it that seemed so strangely familiar?
5079	Or will it be the Courtney animal,--the type of man whose one idea is''to arise, kill, and eat?''
5079	Satisfied with having compassed her degradation, he exclaims:''What shall I do with this beauty, which, because it is mine, now palls upon me?
5079	Some day you will think kindly of me again?"
5079	Speak low and quickly,--Dr. Dean is coming in here from the garden: when-- when?"
5079	St. Petersburg?
5079	Strange, is n''t it?
5079	Strangely embarrassed by their glances, he addressed the Princess in a low tone:"Will you not send away your women?"
5079	Surely you consider her beautiful?"
5079	Surely you know that?"
5079	THE Armand Gervase?"
5079	The Nubian''s grinning lips stretched themselves wider apart as, in a thick, snarling voice he demanded:"Votre nom?"
5079	The music sounds very inviting; shall we not go in?"
5079	The question is, how can you argue at all about anything that is so plain and demonstrated a fact?
5079	The soul of a fiend,--the soul of an angel,--what are they?
5079	The whole thing I perceive is rounding itself towards completion and catastrophe-- but in what way?
5079	Then he said:"Have you told Denzil?"
5079	Then modern France is like old Egypt?"
5079	Then the impression she gave you first is still upon you-- that of having known her before?"
5079	Then you will no doubt admit that there is Something-- an Intelligent Principle or Spiritual Force-- which creates and controls this Matter?"
5079	Then, turning to a passing waiter, he inquired:"Is the Princess Ziska here still?"
5079	There is nothing further-- no mysteries beyond?
5079	Thousands?
5079	Thus, if flowers are born alike in different ages, why not women and men?"
5079	Waiter, some more coffee, please?"
5079	Was it her beauty which so dazzled his senses?
5079	Was it some subtle perfume in the room that awoke a dim haunting memory?
5079	Was she a model at one of the studios?
5079	We part friends, I trust?
5079	Well, what is the result?
5079	What can I do to put them right?"
5079	What change-- what form would be his now?
5079	What do I mean?"
5079	What do you know of it?
5079	What do you think I am made of?
5079	What does it all mean?"
5079	What fool''s notion is this in my brain?
5079	What have I to do with dreams of war and triumph and rapine and murder, and what is the name of Ziska- Charmazel to me?"
5079	What is Araxes to me?--or I to Araxes?"
5079	What is it that engrosses our fair friend more than the looking- glass?
5079	What is it to Raphael that thousands of human units, cultured and silly, have stared at his''Madonnas''and his famous Cartoons?"
5079	What is it?
5079	What is that bright drop on your hand, Helen?--are you crying?"
5079	What of her?
5079	What passion moves you thus-- what mystic fooling?
5079	What place is this, you ask?"
5079	What say you?
5079	What should be the matter?"
5079	What should he do with thrills of joy-- this poor Fulkeward?
5079	What then?
5079	What then?
5079	When shall I see you?
5079	Where have I seen her before?
5079	While Lady Fulkeward answered innocently:"Is it?
5079	Who are they?"
5079	Who can tell?
5079	Who shall tear her from me,--who dispute my right to love her-- ruin her-- murder her, if I choose?
5079	Why am I brought hither?
5079	Why do n''t you other fellows go and get your toggeries on?
5079	Why not?"
5079	Why should we go in?
5079	Why should you be afraid?
5079	Why, indeed?
5079	Will you accept that?"
5079	Will you come?"
5079	Will you introduce me?"
5079	Will you not join the dancers?
5079	With a chaplain and a"dark room,"what more can the aspiring soul of the modern tourist desire?
5079	You are entirely sure of what you said just now?"
5079	You are such a boy still, Denzil,--by- the- bye, how old are you?
5079	You call me''temptress'';--why?
5079	You do n''t mean to say you believe in the possibility of such an appalling creature?"
5079	You do n''t take Monsieur Armand Gervase for a ghost, do you?
5079	You have heard the expression''fighting the air''?
5079	You look amazed; you believe in lasting love?
5079	You meant it so, did n''t you?"
5079	You might as well ask what it is to Araxes now that he was a famous warrior once?"
5079	You surely do not expect me to remain single all my life, do you?"
5079	You, with your exquisite, glowing beauty and voluptuous charm, you would be a''wife''--that tiresome figure- head of utterly dull respectability?
5079	You-- you, out of all women in the world, I choose...""As your wife?"
5079	Your fancy for her is at an end?"
5079	Your glance lights on me, as the hawk''s lights on coveted prey; but think you the prey loves the hawk in response?
5079	Your parents were perhaps barbaric in their notions of love and hatred?"
5079	but where?
5079	demanded the Doctor politely,"or any of the Ptolemies?
5079	echoed Gervase, his black eyes dilating with a sudden amazement--"What do you mean?"
5079	inquired the Doctor calmly and without surprise,--"Not to come back?"
5079	mused Gervase aloud,"Do I know them?"
5079	said Gervase; then, beckoning Denzil Murray aside, he whispered:"Tell me, have you won or lost?"
5079	she answered; then in lighter accents she added:"Have you finished your first outline?"
5114	A reliquary? 5114 A stranger in Al- Kyris?--and from beyond the seas?
5114	Absent? 5114 Ah, Lysia, hast thou played me false?"..
5114	Ah, Sah- luma is thine host?
5114	Am I disfigured, aged, lame, or crooked- limbed? 5114 And I knew not the things that were once familiar and my heart failed within me for very fear..."What did they mean, he wondered?
5114	And Lysia is..--?
5114	And dost thou plead for thine absent friend, Zoralin?
5114	And how hast thou left thy pale beauty Niphrata?
5114	And that is?
5114	And this Prophecy?
5114	And to- night we are to go in for them thoroughly, I suppose?
5114	And what does he say about it?
5114	And what of the other missing sixty- nine books?
5114	And who knows,he thought moodily,"how long they will go on intoning their dreary Latin doggerel?
5114	And who,questioned Heliobas, in tones of hushed reverence,"Who was this Being that thus enchants your memory?"
5114	And yet what IS Realism really?
5114	And your guess is...?
5114	Are not all men thought mad who speak the truth?
5114	Are there different laws for high and low? 5114 Are you grateful for being, as you think, deluded by a trance?
5114	Are you reading my thoughts, Heliobas?
5114	Art thou condemned to die, or dost thou seek an escape from death?
5114	Art thou repentant? 5114 Art thou true friend, or mere flatterer to that spoilt child of fair fame and fortune?"
5114	As a separate Personality that continues to live on when the body perishes?
5114	Aye, most assuredly?
5114	Aye, verily? 5114 Bring him back?
5114	But are they attainable?
5114	But art thou then indifferent to woman''s tenderness?
5114	But how and when did you come?
5114	But suppose--suggested Heliobas quietly,"suppose she were to find an even more complete happiness in making YOU happy?"
5114	But the question is,--considering how it was written,--can I, dare I call this poem MINE?
5114	But what IS life without plenty of money?
5114	But you yourself are in the world of men at this moment--argued Alwyn--"And you are free; did you not tell me you were bound for Mexico?"
5114	Canst thou do no better than sleep--he queried complainingly,"when thou art privileged to listen to an immortal poem?"
5114	Canst thou not be happy, Theos?
5114	Changed? 5114 Criminal as I am,"he murmured tremulously,"I glory in my crime, nor will I seek forgiveness?
5114	Dark?
5114	Did I hear you aright?
5114	Did I?
5114	Did it arise from a contemplation of the site of the Ruins of Babylon?
5114	Do n''t you want to tell me about it?
5114	Do you see that gentleman?
5114	Does going to Mexico constitute liberty?
5114	Does her singing still charm thee as of yore? 5114 Does''Zabastes''still loom on your horizon?"
5114	Done? 5114 Dost thou really believe,"he went on jestingly,"in the divinity of poets?
5114	Entirely"What was his leading principle?
5114	Even if such a belief should have no shadow of a true foundation?
5114	Evolution from what?
5114	Finished?
5114	Forgotten you? 5114 From Christ Himself in person?"
5114	From one atom? 5114 Good?
5114	Gratitude?
5114	HIS? 5114 Hast THOU not loved her also?"
5114	Have you dined, Alwyn?
5114	He, like many others of his class, never took the trouble to consider very deeply the inner meaning of Pilate''s famous question,''What IS Truth?'' 5114 How can it crush me?"
5114	How could she know? 5114 How did you come by it?"
5114	How long wilt thou be mute, my singing- emperor?
5114	How many lovers hast thou had, fair soul?..
5114	How many more fairy tales are you going to weave for me out of your fertile Oriental imagination? 5114 How so?"
5114	How?
5114	How?
5114	I am afraid,she said smilingly,"you must find us all very stupid after your travels abroad?
5114	I heard that stanza somewhere when I was a boy... why do I think of it now? 5114 I see you are still under the sway of the Ange- Demon,"he remarked cheerfully, as he shook hands,"Is he not an amazing fellow?
5114	I suppose I am to understand by this that you will do nothing for me?
5114	I suppose,he said,"there is no doubt of his returning hither?"
5114	If only for the space of some few passing moments, was not thy soul ravished, thy heart enslaved, thy manhood conquered by her spell? 5114 If that is your opinion, why go at all?"
5114	In safety?
5114	Is not this... a very.. remarkable occurrence?
5114	Is the fool dead, or feigning death?
5114	Is this the way you account for idiocy and mania?
5114	Knowest thou not that too much mirth engenders weeping, and that excessive rejoicing hath its fitting end in grievous lamentation? 5114 Mr. Alwyn will know who she is, will he?"
5114	Must I remind you of your early lesson days?
5114	My lord goes to the Palace to- night to make his valued voice heard in the presence of the King?
5114	My lord''s guest goes with him?
5114	Nay, art THOU one of the escaped of Lysia''s lovers?
5114	Nay, but she speaks of dying.. said Theos quickly..."Wilt thou constrain her back from death?"
5114	Nay, dost thou deem me so indifferent, my noble friend?
5114	Nay, if you consider the whole episode a dream,he observed,"why trouble yourself?
5114	Nay, wouldst thou indeed have consoled her, Sah- luma?
5114	No one?
5114	No? 5114 No?
5114	No?
5114	Not even that two and two are four?
5114	Nothing?
5114	Now did I express the proper opinion?
5114	Or are you resting from literary labor?
5114	Part?
5114	Perhaps not!--but what is he to do, if nothing else is offered to him? 5114 Perhaps you will oblige me with your name?"
5114	Please, sir, a gentleman called--"Well!--you said I was out?
5114	Pray, how can you separate life from its worldly appendages?
5114	Right? 5114 SHALL come?"
5114	Safer? 5114 Sah- luma,"he said, in a tremulous, low tone,"tell me truly,--is it good for us to be here?"
5114	See you not.. whispered Sah- luma to his companion,--"how yon aged fool wears upon his breast the Symbol of his own Prophecy?
5114	See you not, Theos, how warm and soft and shuddering a curl it is? 5114 She gave a short laugh,--then relapsing into severity, she added..."You will, I hope, tell Mr. Alwyn I called?"
5114	So thou dost think that, wheresoever Niphrata hath strayed, Lysia can find her?
5114	Still impervious to beauty, old boy?
5114	Surely things are not so bad as they seem, Villiers,--he said gently--"Are you not taking a pessimistic view of affairs?"
5114	Surely--he said--"you will begin to proclaim it now?"
5114	Tell me,he said wistfully,"how has it happened?
5114	Tell me,pursued Heliobas,"how do you define the vital principle?
5114	That I should assert... and you deny... facts that God Himself will prove in His own way and at His own appointed time? 5114 The KING?"
5114	The King?
5114	The foot of the mountain, at which men now stand, grovelling and uncertain how to climb? 5114 The gates?"
5114	The time has come for what?
5114	Then are you all Chaldeans here?
5114	Then there is no freedom in Al- Kyris,--said Theos wonderingly--"if the whole city thus lies under the circumspection of a woman?"
5114	Then why do you give them?
5114	Then why... suggested Theos anxiously--"why not go forth and seek her now?"
5114	Then will you go abroad again?
5114	Then you did the Holy Land, I suppose?
5114	Then you will bring him back to- day?
5114	Then,said Hilarion wonderingly,"you admit this man possesses a power greater than your own?"
5114	Thinkest thou so?
5114	This is a city?
5114	Thou art a new comer,--a stranger, if I mistake not?
5114	Thou art confident Niphrata will return?
5114	Thou dost return straightway to Sah- luma... is it not so?
5114	Thou hast strange notions for one still young,he said..."What art thou?
5114	To thank me?
5114	Treachery?
5114	Was I not right in thinking you would never consent to be interviewed?
5114	Was the sunshine too strong, my friend, that thou didst thus bury thine eyes in thy pillow?
5114	Weeping? 5114 What ails thee?
5114	What ails you now, Villiers?
5114	What am I?
5114	What are you staring at me for?
5114	What art thou?
5114	What canst thou ask that I will not grant?
5114	What do you know of the Nunc Dimittis?
5114	What do you mean by Science?
5114	What do you mean?
5114	What dost thou mean by''good''? 5114 What evil hath befallen thee?
5114	What harm should come to her?
5114	What has happened, Sah- luma? 5114 What hast thou done to Niphrata, to thus grieve her gentle spirit beyond remedy?"
5114	What is this Khosrul?
5114	What language is this?
5114	What now, Gazra? 5114 What sayest thou, Sah- luma?"
5114	What shall we do about this?
5114	What sort of fellows are these?
5114	What was that''adventure''you spoke about in your letter from the Monastery on the Pass of Dariel?
5114	What!--art thou already persuaded?
5114	What''s the matter?
5114	What, in such a case, would become of all the nobler sentiments and passions of man,--love, hope, gratitude, duty, ambition?
5114	What.. what is this?
5114	What?
5114	Where is Khosrul?
5114	Whither should we go? 5114 Whither should we go?"
5114	Who and what was Nir- jalis? 5114 Who says it?
5114	Who, and what are you?
5114	Whom hast thou there? 5114 Why art thou so unmoved?"
5114	Why ask for the King''s Laureate?
5114	Why dost thou stare thus owl- like upon me?
5114	Why is it impossible?
5114	Why not?
5114	Why not?
5114	Why should I have feared Zephoranim?
5114	Why should I?
5114	Why, in the name of all the gods, SHOULD they be raised?
5114	Why, what CAN I do?
5114	Why? 5114 Why?
5114	Why?
5114	Why?
5114	Why?
5114	Will you accompany me to the refectory, Mr. Alwyn? 5114 Willing?
5114	Wilt drown for a statue''s sake?
5114	Wilt leave our noble hostess ere the entertainment has begun? 5114 You PRAY?"
5114	You are certain of what you say?
5114	You believe in the Soul?
5114	You can not? 5114 You care for Fame?"
5114	You know this book?
5114	You mean to infer that the brain can not act without the influence of the soul?
5114	You saw no one but her?
5114	You think_ I_ care for the world? 5114 You won special distinction and renown there, I believe, before you adopted this monastic life?"
5114	Your heart can not be broken? 5114 Your name must seem a curious one to these fellows"--observed Alwyn, when he had gone,--"Unusual and even mysterious?"
5114	is that one can never be quite certain of anything?
5114	''Prepare to die, O Zephoranim?''
5114	''The work is finished, most illustrious?"
5114	''Tis a theory both strange and wild!--hast ever heard of it before?"
5114	--Here, collecting his scattered manuscripts, he put them by--"I''ve done work for the present,"--he said--"Shall we go for a walk somewhere?"
5114	--and he bent over her more ardently--"must I not meet my death at thy hands?
5114	--and his voice, even to his own ears, had a solemn as well as passionate thrill,--"Lysia, what wouldst thou have with me?
5114	--assented Villiers-"But what else do you expect from modern society?
5114	--he demanded irritably.."Art thou not my friend and worshipper?
5114	--he repeated, his thoughts instantly reverting to his friend''s vaguely hinted love- affair,--"What name?"
5114	--he said in a low, uncertain voice,--"Sah- luma, canst thou expect mercy from a woman who has once been so merciless?"
5114	--he said, scarcely conscious of the words he uttered--"Will you not tell me your name?"
5114	--replied Heliobas gayly--"And why not?
5114	--she asked--"The riotous crowd in the marketplace-- the ravings of the Prophet Khosrul?
5114	--she declared, with a ponderous attempt at playfulness--"You read the papers, do n''t you?"
5114	.. the patient grief of all- appealing Nature, commingled with the dreadful, yet majestic silence of an unknown God?
5114	... A Woman or a Goddess?--a rainbow Flame in mortal shape?--a spirit of earth, air, fire, water?
5114	... A friend?"
5114	... ARDATH?
5114	... And why have ye bound this aged fool with such many and tight bonds?
5114	... Are his deeds so noble?
5114	... Are my senses deceived?
5114	... Are ye all turned renegades and traitors that ye will suffer him to go free and triumph in his lawless heresy?
5114	... Are you''going over''to some Church or other?"
5114	... Art thou not all in all to me?
5114	... Canst never speak plain?"
5114	... Come, delay no longer, I beseech thee!--do I not love thee, friend?--and would I urge thee thus without good reason?
5114	... Could there be any one so marvellously privileged?
5114	... Darest thou speak of treachery and Lysia in the same breath?
5114	... Did she not hear Sah- luma''s pleading in her behalf?
5114	... Do you call that friendship?"
5114	... Doth she not dance a madness into the veins?
5114	... Down into the blazing area of the fast- perishing Temple?
5114	... FIVE THOUSAND YEARS?
5114	... Had his life gone back in some strange way?
5114	... Has God taught THEE the way to Everlasting Life?"
5114	... Has the Laureate''s friendship thus misguided thee?"
5114	... How hast thou used the talisman of thy genius?
5114	... How shall the King quench it?
5114	... Hyspiros a literary juggler and trickster?
5114	... Is he a baby in swaddling- clothes that he can not be trusted out alone to take care of himself?
5114	... Is not SHE a willingly violated vestal?
5114	... Is not a producer of poems always considered more or less of a fool nowadays, no matter how much his works may be in fashion for the moment?
5114	... Is there fresh havoc in the city?
5114	... Is there none in all Al- Kyris?"
5114	... Love?
5114	... Nay, what should I do?
5114	... Not till then?"
5114	... Or was the work too vast for his ability?
5114	... Past love?
5114	... Shall there be no more heart- longings because ye are cold?
5114	... Tell me, fair Angel, do I wake or sleep?
5114	... Then.. is Khosrul right after all, and must one learn wisdom from a madman?
5114	... Theos stared aghast at the glowing sky... whither had she gone?
5114	... WHO WAS HE?
5114	... What CAN you expect from a community which is chiefly ruled by moneyed parvenus, BUT vulgarity?
5114	... What abject terror makes ye thus quiver like aspen- leaves in a storm?
5114	... What ails thee?"
5114	... What business can he have with me?"
5114	... What business had you to stop on the way at any hotel?
5114	... What could he say?
5114	... What did it mean?
5114	... What gates?
5114	... What is her crime, ye fiends?
5114	... What is innocence?
5114	... What means this symbol to thine eyes?
5114	... What moved thee to such frenzied utterance?
5114	... What seest thou?"
5114	... What seest thou?"
5114	... What shall be done or said of it, in five thousand years, that has not already been said and done?"
5114	... What shall hinder me from at once slaying thee?"
5114	... What then was the actual worth of Fame?
5114	... What was that?
5114	... Where was that?
5114	... Who IS Baines Bryce?
5114	... Who gave thee leave to add more fuel to my flame of torment?
5114	... Why burden thyself with a corpse when thou mightest rescue a living man?
5114	... Why did their dark and frozen depths appear to retain a strange, living undergleam of melting, sorrowful, beseeching sweetness?
5114	... Why doth the Law, beholding these things, remain in her case dumb and ineffectual?"
5114	... Why such unmanly sorrow for one who is not worthy of thee?"
5114	... Why wearest thou the garb of our citizens?"
5114	... Why wouldst thou pray to be a servant of the Cross?
5114	... Will he make our pulses beat with any happier thrill, or stir our blood into a warmer glow?
5114	... Wilt curse the King?
5114	... Wilt lose me now?
5114	... Wilt mislead the people?
5114	... Wilt thou become inglorious?
5114	... Wilt thou take up arms against thyself and Destiny?
5114	... a new disciple of the Mystics?
5114	... a sensual egotist?
5114	... a warrior stricken strengthless by the mummeries of priestcraft,--the juggleries of a perishing creed?
5114	... after all, what did it matter?
5114	... alas, what am I?
5114	... am I not he whom thou lovest?"
5114	... and are we not all weary to death of his bombastic mouthing?
5114	... and dost thou dare to pretend that she hath preferred THEE, a mere singer of mad songs, to ME?
5114	... and dost thou mourn her still?"
5114	... and for me?"
5114	... and have you not ASKED to be deceived?"
5114	... and is there not a tender witchery in the delineation of my maiden- heroine, so warmly fair, so wildly passionate?
5114	... and shall not one brief hour of love with me console the weariest maid that ever pined for passion?
5114	... and that what we men call death is not a conclusion but merely a new beginning?
5114	... and thinkest thou that we shall ever regret the loss of Heaven?"
5114	... and what IS being in one''s right mind?
5114	... and why art thou here?
5114	... and why were they all so silent as though struck dumb by some unutterable dismay?
5114	... and why?
5114	... and will the grave seal down their hopes forever?"
5114	... and wilt THOU pretend to be stronger than the rest?
5114	... and yet if he indeed had such power of love, would it be generous or just to exert it?
5114	... are not her vows long since broken?
5114	... because men are vile, must a vile god be invented to suit their savage caprices?
5114	... beneath the brightness of the moon?
5114	... but dost thou think to what thou wouldst so eagerly persuade me?
5114	... cheated, as it were, into a sort of semi- belief in the life to come by means of mesmerism?
5114	... could he in very truth do it?
5114	... could there be a more dazzling existence than that enjoyed by this child of happy fortune, this royal Laureate of a mighty King?
5114	... do ye not all blaspheme?"
5114	... do you think me crazed for saying so?"
5114	... dost thou frown at me?
5114	... doth SHE not count her lovers by the score?
5114	... doth she not eclipse all known or imaginable beauty?
5114	... for if she were, why should she veil her native glory in such simple maiden guise?
5114	... for without it, how shall thy fame be held long in remembrance?
5114	... has gossip whispered thee the name of the poor virgin self- destined for this evening''s sacrifice?"
5114	... hast thou caught contagion from Niphrata, and art thou too, sick of love?"
5114	... hast thou ill news?"
5114	... hast thou not given thyself body and soul into my keeping?
5114	... have I not given ye warning?
5114	... he was in Al- Kyris!--why was he so distressed about it?
5114	... here in this dark abode where none may linger and escape with life?
5114	... here?
5114	... his fame?"
5114	... how bridge the depths between our parted souls?
5114	... how darest thou speak of love to the Priestess of the Faith?"
5114	... how had he vanished?
5114	... how shall the mighty monarch defend his people against it?
5114	... how shall thy muse- grown laurels escape decay?
5114	... how was it worked up?"
5114	... if not a Prototype of the future, was it a Record of the Past?
5114	... imprisonments?
5114	... in what blind uncertainty and pain?
5114	... in what timeless trance of soul- bewilderment?
5114	... is his mind so stainless?
5114	... is his wisdom so great?
5114	... is it so?"
5114	... is not her life a life of wanton luxury and open shame?
5114	... is she not fair?
5114	... is the famous Sah- luma gone?"
5114	... love,... or... base desire?
5114	... loved before?
5114	... might he not gather it?
5114	... more deaths?
5114	... more troublous tidings?
5114	... must divine Religion be dragged down from its pure throne to pander to the selfish passions of the multitude?
5114	... need I say more?
5114	... no mercy in the icy fate that rules our destinies?
5114	... not happy in MY house,--protected by MY patronage?
5114	... now, Theos Alwyn"... he continued, apostrophizing himself aloud,--"Are you contented?
5114	... of what avail is it for me to struggle in this dark and difficult world?
5114	... or a Thought of Beauty embodied into human sweetness and made perfect?
5114	... or a student of the Positive Doctrines?"
5114	... or an actually existent Being?
5114	... or dost thou seek an escape from death?"
5114	... or had Sah- luma never truly died at all?
5114	... or had he merely DREAMED of a former existence different to this one?
5114	... or hast thou no remembrance of the nearest road to thine own dwelling?"
5114	... or is thy manful guise mere feigning, and dost thou fear me?"
5114	... or is thy voice too weak for such impassioned cadence?
5114	... or was he hopelessly brain- sick with delusions, and dreaming again?
5114	... or was this stately Chaldean monk, with the clear, pathetic eyes and tender smile, and the symbol of Christ on his breast, wiser than both?
5114	... or.. didst thou discover the King?"
5114	... parted before?
5114	... ready to be made less than the lowest of the low?
5114	... settest thou a limit to the power of the King?
5114	... slain him utterly?
5114	... so grave and rich and marvellously musical, yet thrilling with such heart- moving suggestions of mingled pride and plaintiveness?
5114	... that is enough for you in this world,... and as for a next world, who believes in it?--and who, believing, cares?"
5114	... that is to say, first principles, as that ten is more than three?
5114	... the Press?
5114	... the Ruins of Babylon?
5114	... the life of a drunken voluptuary?
5114	... the sudden arrest and imprisonment of many,--and the consequent wrath of the King?"
5114	... things that like faint, floating clouds rimmed with light, suggest without declaring a glory unperceived?"
5114	... those marvellous mountains that oft wear crowns of ice on their summits and yet hold unquenchable fire in their depths?
5114	... thou who art Man, and therefore NO hero?
5114	... thou who art an Emperor of Song?
5114	... thou who camest to me so sweetly at the first?
5114	... to build up hopes without foundation?
5114	... to call upon God when there is no God?
5114	... to dethrone and destroy the oppressor?
5114	... to die?
5114	... to elevate and purify the world?
5114	... to long for Heaven when there is no Heaven?
5114	... to pass through the darkest phase of world- existence known in all the teeming spheres?
5114	... to rouse the noblest instincts of thy race?
5114	... to uphold the cause of Justice?
5114	... was it love indeed that he felt?
5114	... was she in very truth that shining Peri whose aerial loveliness had so long haunted his imagination?
5114	... were these the"silver eyes"in which Esdras had seen"signs and wonders"?
5114	... what a rapture trembled through her sweet caressing voice!--"My Theos, who is so worthy to win back what is thine own, as thou?
5114	... what can a man do better than enjoy?"
5114	... what could he prove?
5114	... what do you see?"
5114	... what does he do, to merit a future life?
5114	... what had it to do with his immediate position?
5114	... what hast thou?
5114	... what have I seen?
5114	... what love?
5114	... what menace?
5114	... what of him?
5114	... what of the Press?
5114	... what promise?
5114	... what says the beauteous Virgin to her willing slave?"
5114	... what warning?
5114	... what was that low, far- off rumbling as of underground wheels rolling at full speed?
5114	... when shall it be unraveled?
5114	... where hast thou been?"..
5114	... where,--where had this tragedy been previously enacted?
5114	... who can prove that the heavenly bodies are given to the study of music?
5114	... why did they suggest themselves?
5114	... why do ye deem love a sin and passion a dishonor?
5114	... why gaze on me with so distraught a countenance?
5114	... why not call it by the name of the ideal heroine whose heart- passion and sorrow formed the nucleus of the legend?
5114	... why not?
5114	... why should I aid thee?
5114	... why wilt thou be thus self- disgraced and all inglorious?
5114	... why, why had she left him"lost"as she herself had said, in a world that was mere emptiness without her?
5114	... wilt denounce the Faith?
5114	... wiser in the wisdom of eternal things than any of the subtle- minded ancient Greek philosophers or modern imitators of their theories?
5114	... would he,--could he ever forget it?
5114	... wronged each other and God before?
5114	... ye WILL hear me?
5114	... yet almost a platitude, for did not every one occupy themselves exclusively with the Now, regardless of future consequences?
5114	..."Thinkest thou in very truth that I shall live again?
5114	..."and he detached a spray from the bosom of her dress--"What hast thou to do with the poet''s garland?
5114	..."and he struggled violently to release himself from Theos''s resolute and compelling grasp.."Where wouldst thou drag me?"
5114	..."and she drooped her head lower and lower till her dark, fragrant tresses touched his brow..."Then,... thou dost love me?"
5114	..."he resumed tenderly--"Come!--Why art thou thus silent?
5114	A Poet!--who wants me in this age of Sale and Barter?
5114	A genius must surely be more or less conscious of his superiority to those who have no genius?
5114	A singer of sad songs?
5114	A vision?
5114	ART THOU READY?
5114	Accursed work!--Will none undo it?"
5114	Al- Kyris was truly a Vision,--the rest was,--What?
5114	All at once a voice marvellously tender, clear, and pathetic trembled on the silence,--was it, could it be the voice of Khosrul?
5114	Alwyn?"
5114	Alwyn?"
5114	Am I in my right mind?
5114	Am I incongruous, and out of keeping with the march of modern civilization?"
5114	And FROM WHENCE came the atom?
5114	And could injustice be associated with divine law?
5114	And he( the Angel) took me by the right hand and comforted me and set me upon my feet and said unto me:"''What aileth thee?
5114	And how could he accuse Sah- luma of literary theft, when he had none of his own dated manuscripts to bear out his case?
5114	And if both Spiritual and Material BE accepted, then how can we reasonably dare to set a limit to the manifestations of either the one or the other?
5114	And is it supposed to contain a fragment of the true cross?
5114	And shall I not win my own death- garland of asphodel?"
5114	And so Khosrul disturbed the flood of thine inspiration to- night, good minstrel?
5114	And the King?
5114	And then what do you think happened?"
5114	And thy poems,... the fruit of thy heaven- sent but carelessly accepted inspiration,--who is there that remembers them?
5114	And turning to Khosrul he added--"Wilt break a lance of song with me, sir gray- beard?
5114	And was it not possible that this Spectre of Self might still be clinging to him?
5114	And what is Material Force but the visible manifestation of the Spiritual behind it?
5114	And what of Edris?
5114	And where had he been before he ever saw Ardath?
5114	And why the NECESSITY of any atom?"
5114	And why?
5114	And why?
5114	And, respecting the testimony offered by sight and sense, can YOU rely upon such slippery evidence?"
5114	Angel she was,--angel she ever would be,--and yet-- what did she SEEM?
5114	Are they men and women of commonplace and thoroughly material life?
5114	Are we able to explain all the numerous and complex variations and manifestations of Matter?
5114	Are we fooled by an evil fate?--or do we in our loves and marriages deliberately fool ourselves?"
5114	Are you quite convinced of your folly?
5114	Are you ready to being your spells?--and shall I say the Nunc Dimittis?"
5114	Are you still so much of a sceptic that you think an ANGEL would have bidden you seek a place that had no existence?
5114	Arrests?
5114	Art not these dry and vacant forms sufficiently eloquent of the all- omnipotence of Decay?"
5114	Art thou dead to the honor of thy calling, that thou dost wilfully consent to be the victim of wine- bibbing and debauchery?
5114	Art thou fooled likewise with the glimmering Soul- mirage of a never- to- be- realized future?
5114	Art thou ready, proud King?
5114	Baines Bryce, Esq.''?
5114	But I say, why did n''t you come straight here, bag, baggage, and all?
5114	But am I logical?
5114	But how?
5114	But now, tell me, have you thoroughly understood all I have said to you?"
5114	But tell me frankly, if I am as famous as you say, how did I become so?
5114	But tell me, Sah- luma, how could she know I was a guest of thine?"
5114	But was it a real awakening?
5114	But was it well for even a great man to admire his own greatness?
5114	But what danger?
5114	But what next?
5114	But what of that, little one?
5114	But what of the''cello?"
5114	But what was ARDATH?
5114	But what was this"Ardath"to him, he mused?--What did it signify?
5114	But whither?
5114	But who is going to be wise, or strong, or diplomatic enough to reform it?
5114	But would he believe in, or accept, the warning?
5114	But, Alwyn, you have n''t told me how you like the''get- up''of your book?"
5114	But,--speaking of the river-- didst thou remark it on thy way hither?"
5114	By my faith, thou art like Theos yonder, and hast chosen to wear a sprig of my faded crown for thine adornment-- is''t not so?"
5114	COULD he rely on sight and sense... DARED he take oath that these frail guides of his intelligence could never be deceived?
5114	Can I do so now-- to- night-- at once?"
5114	Can YOU understand it?"
5114	Can a Critic enter more closely into the secrets of Nature than a Poet?
5114	Can not these arms embrace?--these lips engender kisses?--these eyes wax amorous?
5114	Can you, will you help me in the search?
5114	Canst compose when thou art drunk, my dainty Laureate?
5114	Canst thou tell?
5114	Come, wilt thou?
5114	Come,... shall we join the brethren?"
5114	Could love COMPEL her, he wondered, to come to him once more while yet he lived on earth?
5114	Could that apply to him?
5114	Could there be a more perfect head than that dark one crowned with myrtle?
5114	Did all Sah- luma''s light follies, idle passions, and careless cruelties remain inherent in him?
5114	Did n''t I tell you I was n''t at home to ANYBODY?"
5114	Did they actually intend to worship her, he wondered?
5114	Did we not see it weighted with iron and laid elsewhere...?"
5114	Didst thou overtake and steadily confront yon armed and muffled stranger?"
5114	Do I not pay thee to abuse me?
5114	Do they disagree among themselves, and speak against one another?
5114	Do they love notoriety?
5114	Do they serve themselves more than others?
5114	Do they, can they honestly believe in God, I wonder?
5114	Do you profess to be wholly without it?"
5114	Do you remember it?"
5114	Does the world know her marvellous origin?
5114	Dost thou think they write what they mean, or practice what they preach?
5114	Dost thou write follies also?
5114	Dreams are seldom realized,... and as to the name of Ardath, have you ever heard it before?"
5114	Escape from death?
5114	Fame?
5114	Fame?
5114	For had not the crazed Prophet called Lysia an"unvirgined virgin and Queen- Courtesan"?
5114	For if thou art a stranger and knowest naught of us, how speakest thou our language?
5114	For life is nothing but vexation and suffering; are we dogs that we should lick the hand that crushes us?"
5114	For while thine unbelief resists my pleading, how can I lead thee from danger into safety?
5114	Forgotten Sah- luma?
5114	Friend Poet, do you think that even Heaven is wholly happy to one who loves, and whose Beloved is absent?"
5114	From whence do you come?"
5114	God Himself will not constrain it,--how then shall we?
5114	Good to be here?
5114	HIS life a glory to the world?
5114	HOW HAD IT HAPPENED?
5114	HOW LONG WILT THOU SEVER ME FROM THY SOUL AND LEAVE ME ALONE AND SORROWFUL AMID THE JOYS OF HEAVEN?''
5114	Had he heard any of the conversation that had just passed between Lysia and himself?
5114	Had he the same pride of intellect, the same vain- glory, the same indifference to God and Man?
5114	Had not she, Edris, consigned him to his"own disdain, Athwart the raptures of a visioned bliss?"
5114	Has he failed to kneel to the passing Ship of the Sun?
5114	Has he returned in safety?"
5114	Has love, the primal mover of all things, no hold upon thee?
5114	Hast been his fly- i''-the- ear or cast- off sandal- string?
5114	Hast lost some maiden love of thine?
5114	Hast thou been grudged sufficient wine that thou dost envy me my slumber?
5114	Hast thou held converse with the Angels, and is Past and Future ONE with thee in the dream of the departing Present?
5114	Hast thou no vestige of a heart, my friend?
5114	Hath Sah- luma been present at their singing lesson?"
5114	Hath he not denounced the faith of Nagaya and foretold the destruction of the city times out of number?
5114	Hath it not a certain exquisite smoothness of rhythm like the ripple of a woodland stream clear- winding through the reeds?
5114	Hath not the High Priestess of Nagaya slaves enough to work her will?
5114	Hath seen her?
5114	Have I not challenged the very heavens for thy sake?
5114	Have I not ministered to grief as well as joy?
5114	Have you ever considered the particular weight of that word''MAN''in that text?
5114	Have you not desired to blazon your name on the open scroll of the world?
5114	He knew it well?
5114	He laughed lightly, and once more shook hands, while Alwyn, looking at him wistfully, said:"I wonder when we shall meet again?"
5114	He looked at them in doubt that was almost dread,... were they real?
5114	Here he looked about him in confused bewilderment.."Where is Lysia?
5114	His heart beat quickly-- could he believe her?
5114	How can it be otherwise?
5114	How can you serve me?
5114	How comes it your dull eyes and ears were fixed so fast upon yon dotard miscreant whose days are numbered?
5114	How could he speak against this friend whom he loved,.. aye!--more than he had ever loved any living thing!--besides what could he prove?
5114	How could he tell?
5114	How do you like my practical dissection of your new- found joys?"
5114	How had he managed to invest himself with such an overpowering distinction of look and grace of bearing?
5114	How have I offended?
5114	How if she were a wingless angel,--made woman?
5114	How long wilt mouth thy words?
5114	How many men would have loved thee as I have loved?
5114	How was my''celebrity''first started?
5114	How would it be, some of them thought, if they were more frequently brought into contact with such royal and gracious manhood?
5114	How?"
5114	Hyspiros a traitor to the art he served and glorified?
5114	I am perplexed at heart and slow of thought; wilt thou assure me faithfully, that this God- Man thou speakest of is not yet born on earth?"
5114	I have a dream,... and I see a woman in the dream"--here he suddenly corrected himself..."a woman did I say?
5114	I miss thy soft blush and dimpling smile,--what ails thee, my honey- throated oriole?"
5114	I suppose in the East, where the sun is so warm and bright, the people are always cheerful?"
5114	I think we''d better accept,--what do you say?"
5114	I wonder if the man I seek is really here, or whether after all I have been misled?
5114	I, Zephoranim, the destroyer of my friend and first favorite in the realm?
5114	I?
5114	If these poor lover- victims merited their doom, why is not Lysia slain?
5114	If, for instance, the King were made aware of Sah- luma''s intrigue with Lysia, would not his rage and jealousy exceed all bounds?
5114	In appearance, do you mean?
5114	In brief, you have recovered your lost inspiration; the lately dumb oracle speaks again:--and are you not satisfied?"
5114	In the first place, then, let me ask you, have you told any one, save me, the story of your Ardath adventure?"
5114	In the first place... WHO WAS HE?
5114	In what vast mystery have I been engulfed?
5114	In what way can Heliobas, who is dead to the world, serve one for whom surely as yet the world is everything?"
5114	Incongruous?
5114	Inconsistent?
5114	Into what vast realms of translucent light or drear shadow?
5114	Is it not better so than that the Universe should continue to seem beautiful only through the medium of a lie?"
5114	Is not this true philosophy, my Theos?
5114	Is she not a peerless moon of womanhood?
5114	Is that prudent?
5114	Is there a man in Al- Kyris who will treat as an enemy one whom Sah- luma calls friend?"
5114	Is there a next world for this?"
5114	Is this land a dream?
5114	Is this true?
5114	It SHOULD be,--but what IS it?
5114	It is purely a caprice of the imagination,--and what is imagination?
5114	Justice?
5114	Kill Sah- luma?
5114	Learning and scholarship?
5114	Like Shelley, he inquired,"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?"
5114	Long ago?
5114	Love is the only god-- who would doubt his sovereignty, or grudge him his full measure of worship?
5114	MYSELF or SAH- LUMA?"
5114	May it not happen, on occasions, that the so- called fool shall teach a lesson to the so- called wise man?
5114	Maybe YOU know something of its whereabouts?"
5114	Might he not possibly guard him in some way and ward off impending danger?
5114	Moreover, what do you mean by a''living Reality''?
5114	Moreover,--what is guilt?
5114	Mourn and bend ye all beneath the iron stroke of Destiny!--for know ye not how fierce a thing has come upon Al- Kyris?
5114	Mrs. Flummery in her presentation- dress''.. except Mrs. Flummery''s own particular friends?
5114	My name is Alwyn...""Theos Alwyn, the English author, I presume?"
5114	NOW do you remember?
5114	Nay now, what will ye do in extremity?--Will ye chant hymns to the Sun?
5114	Nay, why shrink from me?
5114	Nevertheless her sole delight was still to serve me,--could I debar her from that joy because I saw therein some danger for her peace?
5114	No?"
5114	Nothing?
5114	Now then, will you have the kindness to tell Mr. Alwyn I am here?"
5114	Now, if it be true, as I have often thought, that I COULD compel,--by what right dare I use such power, if power I have upon her?
5114	Now, suppose that, after all, Mr. Alwyn DOES care to submit to the operation, you will let me know, wo n''t you?"
5114	Of course he could easily repeat his boyhood''s verses word for word,... but what of that?
5114	Oh unwise, benighted fool!--where were my thoughts?
5114	Oh, speak!--is there no deeper divine intention in the marvellous destiny that has brought us together?--thou, pure Spirit, and I, weak Mortal?
5114	Oh, wilt thou leave me desolate and alone?
5114	Oh, you MUST remember?
5114	On his way, however, he paused and turned round:"Has Niphrata yet come home?"
5114	One must live?
5114	Only a torch for burning and no hammer for building?
5114	Or is it the fashion of Al- Kyris to condemn a man unheard?"
5114	Perhaps, said I, there is no assurance but in the notions of reason?
5114	Perhaps... who knows?
5114	Presently Heliobas spoke again in his customary light and cheerful tone:"Are you writing anything new just now?"
5114	Presently he inquired:"How comes it, Sah- luma, that the corpse of Nir- jalis was found on the shores of the river?
5114	Restrain thy wild and wandering fancies?
5114	SENTENCED joy?
5114	SOON MAY THE CHILD BE BORN WHO SHALL BANISH THE AGE OF IRON?"
5114	Sah- luma conquered, with an effort, his momentary irritation, and resumed coldly:"From whence do you come, fair sir?
5114	Salvation and Immortality?
5114	Say, hast thou occupied thyself with so much friendly consideration on my behalf, as I have on thine?"
5114	Self- surrender?
5114	Shall I show her up?"
5114	Shall it not be so, Lysia?
5114	Shall we go?"
5114	She was a living, breathing woman-- an actual creature of flesh and blood,--yet how account for her appearance on the field of Ardath?
5114	Shuddering with a vague dread, he asked himself the next question,... FROM WHENCE HAD HE COME?
5114	Since when have soldiers grown deaf to the voice of their sovereign?
5114	So you are an''interviewer''for the Press?"
5114	Soldiers and statesmen may bend the knee to their chosen rulers, but to whom shall poets bend?
5114	Some trick has been played on me... who brought me here?
5114	Speak!--What seest thou?"
5114	Speak, fair Queen!--how can I serve thee?"
5114	Speak-- how shall we cheer each other in the shadow- realm of fiends?
5114	Still, I should like to have them all the same,--will you let me write them out just as you have translated them?"
5114	Surely even a professor from Hypharus could find no more, and no less than four?"
5114	Surely there was no passing through such a barrier as this?
5114	Tell me, good Zel, what is the name of the self- offered Victim?"
5114	Tell me-- have we not met before?
5114	The Poet knows the truth,--but what are Poets?
5114	The flesh and blood, bone and substance that perishes in a brief seventy years or so and crumbles into indistinguishable dust?
5114	The question remains,... what IS logic?
5114	The religion of that long- buried city had been mere mummery and splendid outward show,--what was the religion of London?
5114	The rich man gains his cause,--the beggar loses it,--how can it be otherwise, while lust of gold prevails?
5114	Then straightway he became indignant on his friend''s behalf,--why should Sah- luma be blamed?
5114	Then where is the wise man''s superiority if a fool can instruct him?
5114	Then why do we dare to doubt the certainly conceivable variations and manifestations of Spirit?
5114	Then why must I lose thee?
5114	Then,--from whence had this music its origin?
5114	Theos what?
5114	They SHOULD be different?
5114	This is the letter to Elzear,"--here he held out a folded paper--"will you take it now?"
5114	Thou art too humble, methinks, for the minstrel- vocation,--dost call thyself a Minstrel?
5114	Thou must abide with me for all the days of thy sojourn here.... Art willing?"
5114	Thus much wisdom he had acquired,--and what more?
5114	To comfort the afflicted?
5114	To hours of pain and bitterness, as well as to long days of ease and amorous dreaming?
5114	To live a mortal life?
5114	Traitor or spy?
5114	Upon this the SENSES replied: What assurance have you that your confidence in REASON is not of the same nature as your confidence in US?
5114	Vex not thy soul as to thy friend''s virtues or vices-- what are they to thee?
5114	Villiers looked at him questioningly:"Tired of your own celebrity, Alwyn?"
5114	WHAT atom?
5114	WHERE ARE THOU?''
5114	WHERE IS THE FIELD OF ARDATH?"
5114	WHOM had he seen?
5114	WHY did he love Sah- luma so ardently, he wondered?
5114	WHY was it that every smile on that proud mouth, every glance of those flashing eyes, possessed such singular, overwhelming fascination for him?
5114	Was ever a more indiscreet lie?
5114	Was ever poet, king, or even emperor, housed more sumptuously than this, he thought?
5114	Was he glad of the prospect, he asked himself?
5114	Was he then so selfish?
5114	Was he, Theos Alwyn, wiser than Democritus?
5114	Was his companion then a fitting Spectre?
5114	Was it dead with the Dream of Sah- luma?
5114	Was it not possible for men to be the gods of this world, rather than the devils they so often are?
5114	Was she REAL?--or a phantom?
5114	Was she not here a moment since?
5114	Was she not safer as thy slave?"
5114	Was she,--even she, God''s Angel, so far removed from pride, as to be uncertain of her lover''s reception of such a gift of love?
5114	Was there a choir practising inside at this hour of the night?
5114	Was there, COULD there be something not yet altogether understood or fathomed in the Christian creed?
5114	Was there, could there, be anything mysterious or sacred in this"wiste field"anciently known as"Ardath"?
5114	Was this Lysia?
5114	We believe in no actual Creed,--who does?
5114	We have met before!--Why,--after all that has passed,--do we meet again?"
5114	We see the outer Appearance of the woman, but what of that?
5114	Wear and tear and worry of modern existence?--Oh yes, I know!--but why the wear tear and worry at all?
5114	Well,--if there WERE angels, why not?
5114	Were they not the flowers of ARDATH?
5114	What admonition does it hold for thee?
5114	What ails thee now?
5114	What ails thee?
5114	What assurance have you that all you feel and know does actually exist?
5114	What can I, or you, or any one, do against the iron force of Free- Will?
5114	What could she mean?
5114	What did it all mean?
5114	What did she mean?
5114	What didst thou say?
5114	What dost thou here?
5114	What dost thou need of praise?
5114	What flowers were those she wore at her breast!--so white, so star- like, so suggestive of paradise lilies new- gathered?
5114	What frenzy possesses thee?"
5114	What hast thou to do with Zephoranim, that thou dost wind thy many coils about his heart?
5114	What hath he done?
5114	What have I to do with love?
5114	What have you there?"
5114	What if thou wert offered his place?
5114	What in the name of all her beautiful, delicate, glowing youth, had she to do with death?
5114	What is evil?
5114	What is good?
5114	What is it for?
5114	What is it?
5114	What is this that parts us?"
5114	What is this woman to thee?"
5114	What knowest thou of His Majesty''s humors?
5114	What means this throaty clamor?
5114	What might they mean to him, here and now?
5114	What mysterious agency sets the heart beating and the blood flowing?
5114	What mysterious indication of affinity did they read in one another''s faces?
5114	What news hast thou, my sweet?
5114	What next?
5114	What of the High Priestess then?
5114	What of the poem?
5114	What of the"Flower- crowned Wonder"of the Field of Ardath, strayed for a while out of her native Heaven?
5114	What sayest thou now of doom,--of judgment,--of the waning of glory?
5114	What sayest thou of Heaven?
5114	What shall be told concerning His most marvellous Beauty?
5114	What shall prevent me?"
5114	What slight Figure was that, pacing slowly, serenely, and all alone in the moonlight?
5114	What sombre cloud has crossed thy wine- hued heaven?
5114	What spectral shadow of dread hovered above this brilliant scene of high feasting and voluptuous revelry?
5114	What unusual sight attracted them?
5114	What was any physical suffering compared to such a frenzy of mind- agony?
5114	What was it then?
5114	What was the man talking about?
5114	What was the time?
5114	What were the sufferings of Nir- jalis now?
5114	What would be the result?
5114	What!--Sah- luma,--a Poet, whose songs of Love were so perfect, so wildly sweet and soul- entrancing-- HE, to be ignorant of Love''s true meaning?
5114	What!--dost thou play the heroic with me?
5114	What!--ye WILL see me now?
5114	What, as a rule, DO men believe in?
5114	What-- WHAT was that dazzling something in the air that flashed and whirled and shone like glittering wheels of golden flame?
5114	When at last he had retired for a breathing- while, Heliobas turned to Alwyn with the question:"What do you think of him?"
5114	When did the idea first strike you?"
5114	When he had gone, Theos looked up from the news- scroll he was perusing:"Is it not strange Niphrata should have left thee thus, Sah- luma?"..
5114	When should he again meet her?
5114	Whence results the confidence I have in sensible things?
5114	Where didst thou see him?"
5114	Where do you come from, old fellow?"
5114	Where had he gone?
5114	Where hast thou wandered so long, thou Goddess of Morn?
5114	Where have I strayed?
5114	Where is Elzear the hermit?
5114	Where is there any freedom in life?
5114	Where is thy fool Zebastes?
5114	Where is thy sight.. thy memory?
5114	Where then, if not here, could she find happiness?"
5114	Where was this place, he wondered wearily?--When had he seen it?
5114	Where?
5114	Whether wilt thou go?
5114	Whither art thou bound?"
5114	Whither wouldst thou wander in search of me?
5114	Who among men would turn aside from high feasting and mirthful company?
5114	Who but a madman would be honest in these days of competition and greed of gain?
5114	Who could gaze on the exquisite outlines of a form fairer than that of any sculptured Venus and refuse to acknowledge its powerfully sweet attraction?
5114	Who could look on such delicate, dangerous, witching charms unmoved?
5114	Who could she be?
5114	Who is there here that believes in the Sun as a god, or in Nagaya as a mediator?
5114	Who says I am famous?"
5114	Who speaks of the cool sweetness of the grave,--the quiet ending of all strife,--the unbreaking seal of Fate, the deep and stirless rest?
5114	Who will join with me in a lament for Al- Kyris?
5114	Who wrote the story?
5114	Whom have ye seized thus roughly?
5114	Whose handwriting should it be?"
5114	Why dost thou thus disquiet thyself concerning the end of life, seeing that verily it hath NO end?
5114	Why should we willfully JAR God''s music, of which we are a part?
5114	Why talk thus wildly?
5114	Why thus hanker after a phantom loveliness?
5114	Why was he set apart thus, solitary, poor, and empty of all worth, WHILE ANOTHER REAPED THE FRUITS OF HIS GENIUS?
5114	Why?
5114	Will I be drunk at sunrise?
5114	Will a Zabastes move us to tears and passion?
5114	Will they take money for their professed knowledge?
5114	Will ye supplicate Nagaya?
5114	Will you explain?"
5114	Will you?
5114	Wilt drink with me?"
5114	Wilt moralize on the folly of the time,--the vices of the age?
5114	Wilt preach?
5114	Wilt prophesy?
5114	Wilt thou also maintain a creed of hope when naught awaits us but despair?
5114	Wilt''blind thyself with beauty''as thou say''st?
5114	With all the coyness, all the beauty sheen Of thy rapt face?
5114	Woe is me that ye would not listen when I called, but turned every man to his own devices and the following after idols?
5114	Would we might die most absolutely thus, heart against heart, never to wake again and loathe eathtypo or archaism?
5114	Yet the question still remained--, was Khosrul right or wrong?
5114	Yet where was the resemblance?
5114	Yet why?
5114	Yet, how are we to fathom her nature?
5114	Yielding to a sudden impulse, Alwyn spoke his thought aloud:"Heliobas,"he said,"tell me, could not I, too, become a member of your Fraternity?"
5114	You are QUITE sure I can not see him?"
5114	You know what one of your modern writers says of life?
5114	You know what that means?"
5114	You really like the appearance of it, then?
5114	You say he was without faith?"
5114	You spoke of having gathered one of the miracle- flowers on the Prophet''s field,--may I see it?"
5114	Young and pretty?"
5114	a choice morsel for a lover''s banquet?
5114	a poet- heart, to feel the misery of the world?
5114	and Sah- luma laughed musically.."My simple friend, dost thou ask me such a babe''s question?"...
5114	and Sah- luma smiled at Theos as he spoke--"Thou wilt accompany me to the King, my friend?"
5114	and a look of pathetic sorrow came over her face.."How could I, even for thee, my Theos, forsake my home in Heaven?"
5114	and also how foolish was thy fancy last night with regard to the armed masquerader thou didst see in Lysia''s garden?"
5114	and cool thy head at the first fountain?"
5114	and dost thou not comprehend the intention of the Highest in manifesting it unto thee?
5114	and he paused at the side of the girl standing by the harp--"Hast thou sung many of my songs to- day?
5114	and his aged face took upon itself a ghastly greenish pallor--"Hear you not the muttering of the thunder underground?
5114	and how shall we pacify her righteous wrath, concerning this too tranquil death of the undeserving and impure?"
5114	and then for evermore His sacred Name shall dominate and civilize the world...""What Name?"..
5114	and was it not a parting of soul from soul?
5114	and when we come face to face with the Last Dark Mystery, what shall our little wisdom profit us?"
5114	and when?
5114	and whether Religion will in the future occupy no more serious consideration than the Drama?
5114	and why art thou so disquieted?
5114	and why is thine understanding troubled and the thoughts of thine heart?
5114	and wilt thou sue for pardon?"
5114	art thou there, Sah- luma?
5114	ask your name?"
5114	asked Theos half banteringly, as he took his arm--"Dost thou love no one?"
5114	but WHERE?
5114	but still, would not everything that happened in the ACTUAL world merge into that same undecided dimness with the lapse of time?
5114	but was there no after- means of lifting it from thence, and placing it where best such carrion should be found?
5114	called Theos, running after him.."Tell me,--is this the way to the palace of the King''s Laureate?"
5114	canst tell me whither we should turn?
5114	cried Villiers, sitting bolt upright and shooting out the word like a bullet from a gun,--"Free?
5114	cried Zephoranim at last, dashing away the drops his merriment had brought into his eyes--"Wilt kill me with thy bitter- mouthed jests?
5114	demanded Alwyn.."Why should not clerics be told, once and for all, how ill they perform their sacred mission?
5114	demanded Heliobas--"If so, what then?"
5114	did ever man possess so dulcet a voice, he thought?
5114	didst thou not see the Black Disc last night in Lysia''s palace?"
5114	do n''t you think bed suggests itself as a fitting conclusion to our converse?"
5114	do n''t you think so?"
5114	dost thou blaspheme my lady''s name and yet not fear to die?"
5114	echoed Sah- luma petulantly.."Nay, have I done nothing more than this?
5114	ejaculated Sah- luma amazedly,"Not happy with ME?
5114	exclaimed Villiers petulantly, throwing down his bow in disgust,--"What business had you to think anything about it?
5114	for the night is almost past,--the morning is at hand, and danger threatens thee,--wouldst thou be found here drunk at sunrise?"
5114	for who ever heard the midnight stars or any other stars chant?
5114	from an Angel to a mortal?
5114	good?"
5114	he asked after a while--"You said you were on the search for a new sensation- did you experience it?"
5114	he asked listlessly.."What is its nature and whom doth it concern?"
5114	he asked, suspiciously--"And has the Silver Nectar failed of its usual action, and driven thy senses to the winds, that thou ravest thus?
5114	he asked, taking him by the arm,--"Are the pleasures of Fame already exhausted?"
5114	he cried almost furiously,--"Why dost thou mock me then with this false image of a hope unrealized?
5114	he cried gayly,--"Where is thy master Sah- luma?
5114	he cried, enthusiastically clasping him by both hands,--"Where, in the name of all the gods, hast thou been roaming?
5114	he cried,"what doth this fellow prate of?
5114	he cried.... then he added eagerly,"May I look at it?"
5114	he demanded gayly,--"Am I so bronzed?"
5114	he demanded gently--"Canst thou not improvise a canticle of love even in the midst of thy soul''s sudden sadness?"
5114	he demanded in a stern yet tremulous voice..."A thousand?
5114	he demanded..."What is thy calling?"
5114	he echoed, with an accent of incredulous amazement..."The King?
5114	he groaned inwardly, as he endeavored to calm the tempest of his unutterable despair,--"Who am I?
5114	he inquired gravely,"How?"
5114	he inquired--"Can it be well for men to cling superstitiously to a false doctrine?"
5114	he murmured pettishly, turning his head round toward Theos as he spoke--"Was ever a more foolish child than Zoralin?
5114	he murmured with compassionate tolerance--"Have I not told thee that five thousand years and more must pass away ere the prediction be accomplished?
5114	he murmured--"why taunt me with the name?"
5114	he murmured.."What moves thee to blurt forth such strange and unwarrantable sayings?
5114	he mused, as he noticed this brilliant and singular decoration,"an emblem of the fraternity, I suppose, meaning... what?
5114	he mused--"fools or knaves?
5114	he muttered in a thrilling whisper that penetrated to every part of the vast hall--"Wilt force me to drink blood?"
5114	he muttered under his breath,..."The King?
5114	he muttered with white lips.."Treachery?
5114	he muttered..."Why am I thus bound?--why can I not be free?"
5114	he observed, putting up his sword with a sharp clatter into its shining sheath,--"What name sayst thou?
5114	he queried lightly,"and wilt thou also be one of us?
5114	he said again, trembling in the excess of mingled hope and fear..."Hast thou then returned again from heaven, to lift me out of darkness?
5114	he said hastily in English,"I think I am not mistaken-- your name is, or used to be Heliobas?"
5114	he said hastily--"What are Kings to thee?
5114	he said listlessly.."Is it not as it was in the old time,--thou to command, and I to obey?
5114	he said pettishly, yet with a vacant smile,--"what question didst thou bawl unmusically in mine ear?
5114	he said thickly.."Did ye not hear me?
5114	he said with a touch of melancholy surprise in his tone--"Then wherefore art thou here?
5114	he thought half resentfully--"and how dares he predict for the adored, the admired Sah- luma so dark and unmerited an end?
5114	he whispered..."Saw you not the King?"
5114	her unselfish worship?
5114	how came he there?
5114	how can we decide?
5114	how comes it then that all Sah- luma''s work is but the reflex of my own?
5114	how do you know"... and Villiers shook his head dubiously--"What man can be certain of his own destiny?"
5114	how many have you?
5114	interrupted Theos, with eager abruptness..."Canst thou pronounce it?"
5114	is not the way made plain?"
5114	is the sun quenched in heaven?
5114	laughed Sah- luma--"Thinkest thou Lysia''s lake of lilies is a common grave for criminals?
5114	let us hope for the best-- God''s ways are inscrutable-- and you tell me that now-- now after your strange so- called''vision''--you believe in God?"
5114	murmured Heliobas, in a tone of suggestive inquiry--"really nothing?"
5114	murmured Villiers dubiously.--"What is she like?
5114	must I repeat the same thing twice?
5114	nothing so apparently rare that can not be reduced at once from the ignorant exaggerations of enthusiasm to the sensible level of the commonplace?
5114	now, if thou lovest me indeed...""Love thee?"
5114	one can not help wondering.. are their aspirations all in vain?
5114	or a student of the art of song?"
5114	or are they only acting the usual worn- out comedy of a feigned faith?"
5114	or rather a continuation of some strange impression received in slumber?
5114	or the glittering summit itself which touches God''s throne?"
5114	queried Alwyn.--"Does anybody know?
5114	queried Heliobas, meaningly,"or you HOPE?
5114	said Heliobas softly--"Your appearance indicates happiness,--is your life at last complete?"
5114	said the voice..."Wouldst thou crown Me, Theos, with so perishable a diadem?"
5114	said this personage in a rough voice as he withdrew his weapon--"What idle fellow art thou?
5114	she asked--"a city of men who labor for good, and serve each other?"
5114	she cried--"Art thou angel or demon that thou darest defy me?
5114	she murmured wistfully--"Tell me,--am I welcome?"
5114	she was his own heartworshipped Angel,--but on what errand had she wandered out of paradise?
5114	she whispered gently--"Happy as other men are, when loved as thou art loved?"
5114	she whispered.."Quick.. why dost thou hesitate?"
5114	since when hath he deserted his Court of Love for the colder chambers of the Sacred Temple?"
5114	then, turning to Theos, he inquired--"Wilt thou also wear a minstrel- garland, my friend?
5114	this small and insignificant court,--had so far escaped the fire, and was as cool and sombre as a sacred tomb set apart for some hero,... or Poet?
5114	thou hast no faculty in that kind?
5114	thou that wert the complacent braggart of love,--the self- sufficient proclaimer of thine own prowess, where is thy boasted vigor now?
5114	warn him against what?
5114	was it only through time- serving creatures such as this miserable Zabastes, that the after- glory of perished poets was proclaimed to the world?
5114	was there something supernatural in the music, notwithstanding its human- seeming speech and sound?
5114	was thy hot pursuit in vain?
5114	well,--what then?--Must I love many in return?
5114	what WAS his native tongue?
5114	what dost thou think of her?
5114	what had come to the fellow, he wondered?
5114	what hast thou done with the treasures bestowed upon thee by the all- endowing Angels?
5114	what link could there be between a mere man like ourselves and heaven?
5114	what mattered it to him that King, Laureate, and people had all prostrated themselves before her in reverent humility?
5114	what next?
5114	what the worth of Fame, if it were not made to serve as a bright incentive and noble example to others of less renown?
5114	what then?
5114	what then?
5114	what was he thinking of?
5114	what was that?
5114	what.. WHAT was it that Sah- luma sang?
5114	where shal I find her if not in the FIELD OF ARDATH?"
5114	where, in God''s name, had he seen all this marvelous, witching, maddening loveliness BEFORE?
5114	whether the two are likely to become one?
5114	who was she?
5114	whom had he met there?--and how had he come to Al- Kyris from thence?
5114	why not?
5114	why should we linger?
5114	why, why could he not take this dear companion away out of possible peril?
5114	wilt thou stint the generous juice that warms my soul to song?
5114	yes!--but are not men more inconsistent than the very beasts of the field their tyranny controls?
5114	yes,--but was it not almost base on his part to shield himself with that Divine Light and do nothing further?
5114	yet what could he say?
5114	yet what was he in himself?
5114	you will not?
5114	you would not drag her spiritual and death unconscious brightness down to the level of the''reality of a merely human life?