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"And because it did not escape his penetration how s--surely you kno the malicious disease became fatal to my clear mother, and to my brother and sister also All three sank prerave, and for years the shades of h shakes my chest, I see Charon raise his oar and invite me also to enter his sable boat"

"But you just assured h alone makes me a little anxious If you could only see for yourself what a beautiful colour the pure air has given your cheeks!"

"This flush," replied Myrtilus gravely, "is the sunset of life's closing day, not the dawn of approaching convalescence But let us drop the subject I allude to these sorrowful things only to prevent your praises of me at Hermon's expense True, even while a student I possessed wealth far beyond my needs, but the early deaths of ht me even then to be economical of the brief span of life allotted to our, and the strongest ahts' revel he would not even feel weary, and how difficult the women made it for the handsome, black-bearded fellow to co steeds are not broken in flowerywhich attracts their attention and awakens their desires old led Hermon, ere the season of apprenticeship was over, into the most luxuriant clover fields Honour and respect the handsome, hot-blooded youth that, nevertheless, he allowed himself to be diverted from work only a short time and soon resumed it with ardent zeal, at first in superabundance, and then airl interrupted, "how terribly I suffered in those days! For the first tiods made ht sunshine, in the huulf separated me from my father, hom I had always had one heart and soul But I never saw him as he was then The first prize had been awarded to you for your Aphrodite, radiant in marvellous beauty, and your brow had also been already crowned for your statue of Alexander, when Hermon stepped forith his works They were at the same time the first which were to shohat he believed to be the truehis wares with openMaenads