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CHAPTER IV.
WELL-MATCHED LOVERS.
Ursus being a philosopher understood. He approved of the fascination of
Dea. He said, The blind see the invisible. He said, Conscience is
vision. Then, looking at Gwynplaine, he murmured, Semi-monster, but
demi-god.
Gwynplaine, on the other hand, was madly in love with Dea.
There is the invisible eye, the spirit, and the visible eye, the pupil.
He saw her with the visible eye. Dea was dazzled by the ideal;
Gwynplaine, by the real. Gwynplaine was not ugly; he was frightful. He
saw his contrast before him: in proportion as he was terrible, Dea was
sweet. He was horror; she was grace. Dea was his dream. She seemed a
vision scarcely embodied. There was in her whole person, in her Grecian
form, in her fine and supple figure, swaying like a reed; in her
shoulders, on which might have been invisible wings; in the modest
curves which indicated her sex, to the soul rather than to the senses;
in her fairness, which amounted almost to transparency; in the august
and reserved serenity of her look, divinely shut out from earth; in the
sacred innocence of her smile--she was almost an angel, and yet just a
woman.
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