Crossword-Solution: BONDSLAVE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

His own work and those of his pupils and masters singly occupy his mind; he is the bondslave, the zealot of his school; he dreams of an advance in art like what there is in science; he thinks of past things as radically dead; he thinks a form can be outlived: a strange immersion in his own history; a strange forgetfulness of the history of the race! Meanwhile, by a glance at his own works (could he see them with the eager eyes of his readers) much of this illusion would be dispelled.

But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night; Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake; Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light, Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.

This last stroke was almost too much for the Count’s nerves, for in this act he saw the hand of the man who had come to him with such deadly threats, and terror filled his soul as he thought of the far-stretching arm of him whose bondslave he found himself to be; but before he could collect his thoughts, his daughter’s maid went into the room crying with all her might, “Help, help; my poor mistress is dying!” CHAPTER XIV.

Yet she said with great composure: "My lord and husband does not reprove even a bondslave without a hearing, how much less then, his wedded wife?" "Speak," said the knight with a gloomy countenance, "what induced you to act so strangely?" "I should like to tell you when we are quite alone," sighed Undine.

Her exclamation— “_I_ wed with thee! _I,_ bound by precontract Your bride, your bondslave!” was scarcely uttered with the scorn which such a girl would throw into the words if her heart went with them.