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Myrtilus warmly assented, but Herood will of the judges!"

"Why not?" the girl interrupted "My father is just, the king is an incorruptible connoisseur, and certainly yesterday evening you, too, believed the others to be honest rudge a prize to you than to himself"

"Why should he?" asked Hermon, as if he, too, was perfectly sure of his friend "We have shared ether When we determined upon this competition each knew the other's ability Your father coriculture, peace, e, and Arachne, the mortal as the rain dealer and owner of spinning factories The best Deoddess, to whose priestesses you belong; the less successful one in your own house in the city, but whose Demeter is destined for the sanctuary, I repeat, is now virtually decided Myrtilus will add this prize to the others, and grant me with all his heart the one for the Arachne The subject, at any rate, is better adapted to my art than to his, and so I should be tolerably certain of es remains, for surely you kno much the majority are opposed toainst the stream which bears you, Myrtilus, and those who are on your side, sh conviction, but with other acknowledged great artists and our judges, you, too, de? Is not any one who refuses to follow in the footsteps left by the ancients of Athens as certain of condemnation as the convicted thief or murderer? But I will not follow the lead of the Athenians, inih they are in their oay, because I would fain be more than the ancients of Ilissus: a disciple and an Alexandrian"

"The never-ending dispute," Myrtilus answered his fellow-artist, with a cordiality in which, nevertheless, there was a slight accent of pity

"Surely you know it, Daphne To me the ideal and its e to the oal, but he and his co-workers seek objects nearer at hand"