Decimon Hu Das; A Romance of Mars a Story of Actual Experiences in Ento (Mars) Many Centuries Ago (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. Now we will recur to the period immediately succeeding the occurrence of the tempest. During all the days and nights of Zeydon's dangerous illness Ouman Mitsa was almost constantly by his side. Through listening to his fevered ravings he came into a clear understanding of the motives which had impelled the unfortunate priest to a course of conduct quite at variance with his calling, --and indeed at variance with his naturally honorable and elevated ideas of right. He learned how the rigid asceticism of the priest had so repressed his naturally fervid nature that when Frona's exceeding beauty and wondrously charming personality awakened in him the emotion of love, his self-deception led him to attribute his interest in her to a higher motive than a selfish desire to have her ever near him. He learned that through all the years of Zeydon's infatuation his passion for his victim was of such an exalted nature that her name on his lips was as though it were the name of a goddess. In Ouman Mitsa's mind this strange passage in the life of the austere priest excited a sense of compassion, for truly he was only a little less a victim of the force of irresistiible circumstances than were Invalou and Frona. Though he did not at any time hold Zeydon wholly blameless he came to understand that, in an endeavor to compass certain ends, one may unconsciously grow so mentally and morally blind as to be irresponsible. Throughout his protracted delirium Zeydon did not recognize even those most familiar to him; thus Ouman Mitsa, who so carefully watched the stricken man upon whose recovery depended gravest issues, came and went unnoticed by his staring, unseeing eyes. He and the Nyassas well knew, that should Zeydon pass into the Silence the future of Invalou and ...