closer round him : 



224 "held IX BONDAGE;" OR, 

* You do not doubt me now ? You will never 
leave rae  ^never ? ' 

* Never, my God !' And bs he poured out upon 
her in his kisses the wordnetdesire which words were too 
cold and tame to utter, he forgot  utterly, entirely 
 that cold, cruel, jeering face which had passed 
him but an hour before, and  forgot, also, the 
ties that bound him. 

Their  was too deep for  ; all she 
cared for was to look up into his eyes; all he 
cared for was to drink of the fresh sweet waters of 
human  ; to lavish on the only  he 
loved all the pent-up well-springs of his  ; to 
hold her there close  close, so that none could 
come to rob him of her a second time  the one 
lost to him for so long ! 

Do you  at him? Go and travel in 
Sahara, across that great, dreary, blinding, wordnetfear- 
less, hopeless plain of glaring yellow sand, where 
you see no living  save the vulture whirling 
aloft awaiting some dead camel ere it can make 
its loathsome feast ; travel with the thirst of the 
desert upon you, your throat parching, your eyes 
starting, your whole frame quivering with wordnetdesire 
for the simple drop