The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-21

- - the needful yolumes--thou
knowest them-on the fifth shelf of
the cabinet"
Tito rose at the same moment with
ROmola, saying 81 will reach them, If
you will point them out" and fol-
lowed her hastily into the adjoining
small room.
"There they are" said Romola.
pointing upward; "every book is just
where it was when my father ceased
to see them"
Tito stood by her without Fastening
to reach the books. +.
II hope" she continued, turning her
eyes full on Tito, with look of grave
confidence-"I hope he will not weary
you; this work makes him so happy?"
Sand me too, Romoa--if you only
let me say, love you-if you will oily
think me worth loving little"
His speech was the softest murmur,
and the dark beautiful face, nearer to
hers than 1t had ever been before,
was looking at her with beseeching
tenderness.
II do love you," murmured Romola ;
she looked at him with the same sim
pie majesty as ever, but her voice had
never In her life before sunk to that
murmur. 1t seemed to them both that
they were looking at each other long
while before her lips moved again /;
vet 1t was but moment till she said,
II know now what 1t Is to be happy"
The faces just met and the dark
curls mingled for an instant with the
ripping gold. Quick as lightning after
that, Tito set his foot on a projecting
ledge of the book shelves and reached
down the needful volumes. They were
both contented to be silent and sep
arate, for that first blissful experience
of mutual consciousness was all the
more exquisite for being unperturbed
by immediate sensation.
1t had all been as rapid as the ir
reversible mingling of waters, for even
the eager and jealous Bardo had not
become impatient.
Whey they told her father, hi
wanted time for reflection. BE patient
my children; you are very young"
mo more could be said, and Ro
mola's heart was perfectly satisfied
Not so Tito's. If the subtle mixtur,
of good and evil prepares suffering fol
human truth and purity, there is ais,
suffering prepared for the wrongdoel
by the same mingled conditions. Al
Tito kissed Romola on their parting
that evening the very strength of tn,
thrill that moved his whole being h
the sense that this woman, who's,
beauty it was hardly possible to thinl
of as anything but the necessary con
sequence Of her noble nature, love,
him with all the tenderness that spok
in her clear eyes, brought a stron
reaction Of regret that he had not KEEP
himself free from that first decei
which had dragged him into the dan
ger Of being disgraced before hel
There was a spring of bitterness min
gled with that fountain of sweets"
George Eliot's magnificent study O
character concerns itself with Flol
ence at the time when Chrlstophe
Columbus was discovering Americ,
when Savonarola was prior of Sair
Marks and ruled the city by hi
moral energy and his fanaticsm, whe
his pious frenzies, his visions, and h
predictions of heavenly wrath SCENE
10 the majority of his fellow either
as coming from more than mort
source when Charles the Eighth
France invaded Italy when the plag,
brought dire dismay; when the eli
was distraught by the struggles Of Il
austere devotees of Savonarola az
the gay partisans Of pleasure; VIII,
the mighty ones Of the land we
united against poor distracted Flc
ence; when PierO de- Medici was co
spring IT, regain the power once he
by Lorenzo fbe Magnificent; when fl
ally Florence turned against Savo
arOla and he met his death
ignominy or martyrdom, as one view,
It as foe or partisan. Across the seer
there fit the figures of Pico del
Mirandola, of Fra Bartolommeo,
Domenico Ghirlandajo, Of CossimO
Piero, Of Poliziano, of Bernardo d
Nero, Of Strozzis and Tornabuonis,
Niccolo Machiavelli, of ''promisil