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At this moment my lioness looked quickly and curiously at h I didn't knohy--and the red dawn immerses o to bed, but merely threw off her ball-dress and undid her hair; then she ordered me to build a fire, and she sat by the fire-place, and stared into the flaer, mistress?" I asked, my voice failed me at the last word

Wanda shook her head

I left the rooallery, and sat down on one of the steps, leading froht a fresh, dareen hills extended into the distance in a rosy olden haze hovered over the city, over the round cupola of the Duomo

A few stars still tremble in the pale-blue sky

I tore open ainst thethat had happened so far see to be serious, terribly serious

I anticipated a catastrophe, I visualized it, I could lay hold of it with th was broken And if I as that threatenedthat frightenedher whom I loved with a sort of fanatical devotion; but it was so overwhelan to sob like a child

During the day she reress attend her When the evening star rose glowing in the blue sky, I saw her pass through the garden, and, carefully following her at a distance, watched her enter the shrine of Venus I stealthily followed and peered through the chink in the door

She stood before the divine ioddess, her hands folded as in prayer, and the sacred light of the star of love casts its blue rays over her

Onher and despair took such powerful hold of hted the little red oil-lae, and entered her bedrooht with one hand

The lioness had been hunted and driven until she was exhausted She had fallen asleep a on her back, her hands clenched, breathing heavily A dream seemed to oppress her I sloithdrew ht fall full on her wonderful face