Needs one who knows the secret of the bolt.
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repaima (receding a little, and gathering herself upin an attitude of resolve opposite to Zarca). No, I will never fly!Never forsake that chief half of my soulWhere lies my love. I swear to set you free.Ask for no more; it is not possible.Father, my soul is not too base to ringAt touch of your great thoughts; nay, in my bloodThere streams the sense unspeakable of kind,As leopard feels at ease with leopard. But, —Look at these hands! You say when they were littleThey played about the gold upon your neck.I do believe it, for their tiny pulseMade record of it in the inmost coilOf growing memory. But see them now!Oh they have made fresh record; twined themselvesWith other throbbing hands whose pulses feedNot memories only but a blended life, —Life that will bleed to death if it be severed.Have pity on me, father! Wait the morning;Say you will wait the morning. I will winYour freedom openly: you shall go forthWith aid and honors. Silva will denyNaught to my asking.... THE SPANISH GYPSY. 131 ZARCA (with contemptuous decision).Till you ask him aught Wherein he is powerless. Soldiers even nowMurmur against him that he risks the town,And forfeits all the prizes of a forayTo get his bridal pleasure with a brideToo low for him. They ’71l murmur more and louderIf captives of our pith and sinew, fitFor all the work the Spaniard hates, are freed, —Now, too, when Spanish hands are scanty. What,Turn Gypsies loose instead of hanging them !’T is flat against the edict. Nay, perchanceMurmurs aloud may turn to silent threatsOf some well-sharpened dagger; for your DukeHas to his heir a pious cousin, who deemsThe Cross were better served if he were Duke.Such good you’ll work your lover by your prayers. FEDALMA.Then, I will free you now! You shall be safe,Nor he be blamed, save for his love to me.I will declare what I have done: the deedMay put our marriage off..... ZARCA.Ay, till the timeWhen you shall be a queen in Africa,And he be prince enough to sue for you.You cannot free us and come back to him. FEpDALMA.And why ?
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