Chapter I: Front Matter

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ARETHUSA

ARETHUSA

BY
F. MARION CRAWFORD

AUTHOR OF "SARACINESCA," "A LADY OF ROME,"
ETC., ETC.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
GERTRUDE DEMAIN HAMMOND_

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1907

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1906, 1907,
BY THE PHILLIPS PUBLISHING CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1907,
BY F. MARION CRAWFORD.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1907.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

THE STORY-TELLER OF THE BAZAAR
DEDICATES
THIS TALE OF CONSTANTINOPLE
TO HIS DEAR DAUGHTER
ELEANOR

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Arethusa _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

He was talking with an old beggar woman 30

She tenderly kissed the wrinkled face 44

'Yes,' replied the negress. 'Rustan is very affectionate. He
says that I am his Zoë, his "life," because he would surely
die of starvation without me!' 66

'Tell me your story,' he said in a lower tone. 'Do not be afraid!
no one shall hurt you.' 88

'Forty ducats!' cried Omobono, casting up his eyes, and preparing
to bargain for at least half an hour 94

All sorts of confused thoughts crowded her brain, as Zeno sat
down on a seat beside the divan 108

There was something so oddly fixed in his look and so dull in his
voice that Omobono began to fear that he might be a lunatic 128

'I know them,' Zoë answered. 'If I am not telling you the
truth, sell me in the market to-morrow.' 164

'I did not mean to love you!' 194

The captain's wife obeyed, less frightened than she had been at
first 218

Saw her sink down there exhausted, and draw a heavy silk shawl
across her body 240

'Tell me what you see,' she said to the maids 262

'Yes!' roared the Tartar. 'Ten thousand ducats! And if I do
not find the money in the house, you two must find it in
yours! Do you understand?' 274

Then, all at once, he felt that she had received one of those
inspirations of the practical sense which visit women who
are driven to extremities 310

'Am I not your bought slave?' she asked. 'I must obey.' 352