Love and Apollo by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, history, romatic fiction, barbara cartland
ISBN: 978-1-908411-01-3
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com

CHAPTER FIVE

Valona heard a knock at her door.

She realised that it was the Duke’s valet telling her that it was time for her to get up.

She pulled back the curtains over the portholes and saw that the sun had just risen – it was very early indeed.

She knew the Duke was worried about not wasting time and reaching Larissa as soon as possible.

But he was allowing her to visit Delos.

She dressed herself in a few minutes, not taking any notice of her hair that hung loosely over her shoulders.

Then in flat-heeled shoes she ran out of her cabin and up on deck, where she saw that they were anchored in a small bay.

There was a seaman to help her down a rope ladder into a small boat where two more seamen were waiting to row her to the shore.

It was only a short distance to Delos and apart from bidding her “good morning,” they did not speak.

They ran the boat up the beach and helped her out.

She hurried up a narrow path that led to the top of a low cliff.

She had read in one book that the small mysterious island of Delos lay very low in the water, as the author had said, ‘with only the small hill of Cynthus to hold it from floating away.’

It took Valona a few seconds to reach the top of the cliff and then she found herself standing as she had longed to on the island of Delos.

As she had expected the island was a mass of spring flowers. Anemones flooded the meadows that were filled with many gleaming columns and ruins of what had once been temples.

Looking ahead of her Valona was still.

Now she could feel the wind blowing softly around her and was filled with a sense of enchantment she had always known she would find in Delos.

A dozen books had told her that a heavenly light always fell over the island and Apollo’s presence could positively be felt.

As she stood there she could see the light flashing against white marble, which lay visibly among the flowers.

Over the whole island the air seemed to be like a dancing quivering flame.

She could not explain it, yet it was there just as she had expected it to be.

Although she felt she must be imagining it, she was aware of the light glittering and shining high up in the air.

There seemed to be a mysterious quivering, a low beating of silver wings and the whirl of silver wheels.

She walked a little further along the meadow.

As she did so, she felt the shimmering presence of Apollo himself.

It was as though she could see him with her own eyes, and he was looking unbelievably handsome.

Behind him lay the many white Temples built in his honour.

As Valona moved very slowly over the anemones, she found herself remembering what she had read.

How the Goddess Leto had given birth beside the wheel-shaped lake to Apollo, the fairest of the immortals, and his twin sister Artemis and how the whole earth had rejoiced.

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