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Surely you know the horrible wo with bestial fury The spectacle of these fruits of the industry of one dear to rieved me also, and I could not understand how you and the others saw anything to ads the colour faded frouardianship he had a right to direct Hermon in the paths of art also, he forbade his ward to waste anyand wrath instead of gratification, exultation, and joy You know the consequences, but you do not kno my heart ached when Hernation, turned his back upon my father and severed every tie that united him to us In spite of his deep vexation and the unbridled violence hich the nephew had allowed himself to address his uncle,his assistance froer ca him to reason, he positively declared that he would not accept another obolus from my father--he would rather starve than permit any one to dictate to him in the choice of his subjects Liberty orth old Yet my father sent him his annual allowance"

"But he refused it," added Myrtilus "I remember that day well, how I tried to persuade hiht him to accept from my abundance what he needed But this, too, he resolutely refused, though at that time I was already so deeply in his debt that I could not repay hi of the devotion hich he nursed you when you were so ill?" asked Daphne

"Certainly; yet not of that alone," was the reply "You do not kno he stood by reat successes, when base envy clouded h he himself had won the laurel? It was he, the anition held even farther aloof from his creations than success And when, just at that time, the insidious disease attacked mebrother While for joy of existence, he had revelled all day and caroused all night, how often he paused in the rush of gaiety to exchange the festal hall for a place besidethere until Eos dyed the east, that he ht hold my fevered hand and support arlanded for soay banquet, he took the flowers froht not leave hi to hireat leech Erasistratus, that I a before you alive and can praise what my Hermon was and proved himself to me in those days