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Slaves Of Freedom

CHAPTER III-VASHTI 

Word Count: 1333    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

music; it was deep and sweet and luring. It was like the golden hair of the Princess Lettice lowered from her casement to her lover. It was like the silver feet of laughter twinkling up a beanstal

ely distant until i

scarlet that weltered across floor and ceiling f

ere?" he

escaped from a door which had been left ajar. It was from there that the voice was calling. Steadying himself with his

o that. You do it too oft

ce on yo

ly once. Yo

romi

across their shoulders their heads had drawn a little apart. Her hands, resting on the keyboard, were hel

of humor; the lips were full and kind; the eyes blue and impatient His complexion was high and his hair flaxen; his bearing sensitive and a little se

gue as a sea-cloud, now flashing like sudden gleams of blue-gray sunlight Her hair was the color of ancient bronze-dark in the hollows and burnished at the edges. Her throat was her glory-full and young, throbbing like a bird's and slender as the stalk of a flower. It was her mouth that gave the key to her character. It could be any shap

n troubled when first they rested on him, brightened. Her lips relaxed. Like a bubble rising from

here did you get him? And w

, she knelt beside him, bringing her face down to his level. As i

nny," she said. "Whe

't see his hands; they only reached to where his elbows ought to have been. He couldn't see his feet; a yard of pink stuff draped them. He had had to kilt it to make his way along the passage. But the garment's chief offense, as he regarded it, was that it was a woman's: a rather stout middle-aged woman's-the sort of woman who had given up tr

id you c

ed

arly to be in bed? Per

g aside and trying to keep the tears back. "I

rstand. Poor old

she held him. He could feel the beating of her heart and the slow movement of her breath.

ke to see what you look like. And no

e whispered. "Pl

to make him jealous. Turning to the child, she lowered her voice, "You'll catch cold if you don't get

bet

kiss

n left his seat to follow. She paused in the doorway, gazing ac

Vas

d no. There's some one else to-ni

the passage which had been full of fears without her, her act seemed symbolic. Gazing back from her arms, he saw the man-saw the perplexed humiliation of his expression, his aloneness and instinctively his tragedy, yet without pity and rather with contentment In later years all that happened to him seemed a refinement of spiritua

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1 BOOK I-LIFE TILL TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER I-MRS. SHEERUG'S GARDEN2 CHAPTER II-THE FAERY-GODMOTHER3 CHAPTER III-VASHTI4 CHAPTER IV-THE ROUSING OF THE GIANT5 CHAPTER V-THE GHOST BIRD OF ROMANCE6 CHAPTER VI-A STRATEGY THAT FAILED7 CHAPTER VII-"PASHUN" IN THE KITCHEN8 CHAPTER VIII-THE EXPENSE OF LOVING9 CHAPTER IX-THE FOG10 CHAPTER X-THE WIFE OF A GENIUS11 CHAPTER XI-THE LITTLE GOD LOVE12 CHAPTER XII-DOUBTS13 CHAPTER XIII-SHUT OUT14 CHAPTER XIV-BELIEVING HER GOOD15 CHAPTER XV-THE FAERY TALE BEGINS AGAIN16 CHAPTER XVI-A WONDERFUL WORLD17 CHAPTER XVII-DESIRE18 CHAPTER XVIII-ESCAPING19 CHAPTER XIX-THE HIGH HORSE OF ROMANCE20 CHAPTER XX-THE POND IN THE WOODLAND21 CHAPTER XXI-VANISHED22 CHAPTER XXII-THE FEAR OF KNOWLEDGE23 CHAPTER XXIII-TEDDY AND RUDDY24 CHAPTER XXIV-DUKE NINEVEH ENTERS25 CHAPTER XXV-LUCK26 CHAPTER XXVI-DREAMING OF LOVE27 BOOK II-THE BOOK OF REVELATION CHAPTER I-THE ISLAND VALLEY28 CHAPTER II-A SUMMER'S NIGHT29 CHAPTER III-A SUMMER'S MORNING30 CHAPTER IV-HAUNTED31 CHAPTER V-SUSPENSE32 CHAPTER VI-DESIRE'S MOTHER33 CHAPTER VII-LOVING DESIRE34 CHAPTER VIII-FAITH RENEWS ITSELF35 CHAPTER IX-SHE ELUDES HIM36 CHAPTER X-AND NOTHING ELSE SAW ALL DAY LONG37 CHAPTER XI-THE KEYS TO ARCADY38 CHAPTER XII-ARCADY39 CHAPTER XIII-DRIFTING40 CHAPTER XIV-THE TRIFLERS GROW EARNEST41 CHAPTER XV-SLAVES OF FREEDOM42 CHAPTER XVI-THE GHOST OF HAPPINESS43 CHAPTER XVII-THE TEST44 CHAPTER XVIII-THE PRINCESS WHO DID NOT KNOW HER HEART45 CHAPTER XIX-AN OLD PASSION46 CHAPTER XX-SHE PROPOSES47 CHAPTER XXI-THE EXPERIMENTAL HONEYMOON48 CHAPTER XXII-SHE RECALLS HIM49 CHAPTER XXIII-HIS WAITING ENDS