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"This time it can not be one of the ily, "but a famous wo even the august Athene"

"So it is no goddess?" Ledscha asked in a disappointed tone

"No, child, but the most skilful woman who ever plied the weaver's shuttle"

"And her na contemptuously: "Arachne? That is--that is what you Greeks call the most repulsive of creatures--the spider"

"The ht erly retorted

Here he was interrupted; his friend Myrtilus put his fair head into the roo: "Pardon ain for some time I have i while Yet before I go I ave me for you She sends word that she shall expect you without fail at the banquet for the Pelusinian guests Your absence, do you hear?--pardon the interruption, fairest Ledscha--your absence would seriously anger her"

"Then I shall be prepared for considerable trouble in appeasing her," replied Herirl

Myrtilus crossed the threshold, turned to the Biamite, and said in his quiet, cheerful ht to Eros, it beseems the friend to streith flowers the path of the one who is offering the sacrifices; and you, if everything does not deceive ht to serve hiiveness fro, were it only until to-ed her shoulders and ht hers, but Myrtilus changed his tone and addressed a grave warning to his friend to consider well that it would be an insult to the manes of his dead parents if he should avoid the old couple from Pelusium, who had been their best friends and had taken the journey hither for his sake

Hermon looked after him in painful perplexity, but the Biahtily erect, said coldly: "The choice is difficult for you, as I see Then recall to your ht of the full moon means--you are well aware of it--to me If, nevertheless, you still decide in favour of the banquet with your friends, I can not help it; but I hter of Archias?"