Woman-like, they all exclaimed at once, and were in a flutter of excitement over the beauty of workmanship, the flight of fancy, and the loving sentiments expressed in this novel fashion.
“Did I not tell thee the squares would fit into the wheel?” demanded Suravia, when she finally managed to make herself heard.
“Let us try it,” said Kerœcia. “Thou art right. It fits perfectly. The tablet is square, but the wheel is circular, which is in itself a great mystery with the Azes.”
The priestess blushed scarlet as she realized that she had betrayed her study of Yermah’s religion.
“Tell us about it,” demanded both auditors, eagerly.
“To circle the square, means to find the perfect way of living,” she answered.
“And he means to say that his life with thee will be perfect? He is the square, thou art the circle?”
“It were more worthily put the other way,” answered Kerœcia, touched by his tenderness and devotion.
“See the clasps,” said Mineola. “At the eastern point is a man’s figure with a bull’s head, holding a spear over his left shoulder, from which hangs a hare.”
“What a quaint, odd symbol of himself!” said Kerœcia, smiling.