It was his impersonalpresence which enveloped her.
And she watched him rideover the brow of the road, sitting dark and still on his
silky,roan horse.
Or they would persist in the slowrevenge. Slowly
she edged, swayed, moved alittle, and was afloat.
Kate had a message from Cipriano to say he was
coming out to stayin the Villa Aragon. By aswift dark instinct, Cipriano drew away
from this in her. What was the good of trying to understandhim or wrestle with him?
Tell them in your Irelandto do as we have done here.
She could not gripit into one final spasm of white
ecstasy which was like sheerknowing. Men in the water werepushing the ships black
stern, to push her off.
She could see that to him, it was
repulsive.
Then he went towet his long strips in the lake,
returning with them dangling. When Kate watched him, he glanced up witha flash of
black eyes, saluting her. Ramón needs far too much submission from a woman, to
please me,Kate added. Themoisture still lingered, the bushes on the wild hills were
green inpuffs. And the scientific, fair-and-square Europe has to mate once morewith
the old giants. And him alone, just as a man and a soldier, she could marry
easilyenough.
Kate hung her head, stubborn and angry at being put
down from hereminence. He dropped off the edge of masonry and waded out in the dim,
soft,uncanny water. How would he ever duck to that roof, and drop under,into the
darkness of the ship?
Ramón and Teresa came along the lake, and rowed
into the basin.
They edged her slowly to the end, where shelooked
down into the boat. Then dont let it, she cried, in fear and repulsion. She had sunk
to a finalrest, within a great, opened-out cosmos. A simple Don Ramón has aliving
Quetzalcoatl inside him.
Or they would persist in the
slowrevenge.
They edged her slowly to the end, where shelooked
down into the boat. Because, admitting his blood-unison, Ramón at the same time
claimeda supremacy, even a godliness.
And at last, she dropped neatly intothe hold. It
was near, yet seemed strange and remote. The universe had openedout to her new and
vast, and she had sunk to the deep bed of purerest. By this power you shall know the
god in man.