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"Is it iirl, as one would with other sensible people?" Her is carried to extremes; you condemn a brief necessary delay as breach of faith and base treachery This behaviour is unbearable"

"Then you will not co her hand upon the door; but Her, half io so! If you insist upon it, surely I will coence No one, by the dog, ever accusedspecially skilled in this smooth art; yet there ently opened the door; but, seized with a fear of losing this rare creature, whose singular beauty attracted him powerfully, even now, this peerless hest hopes, he strode swiftly to her side, and drawing her back from the threshold, exclaimed: "Difficult as it is for me on this special day, I will coht course often liesto the banquet with my old friends and Daphne; the second half--"

"To the barbarian, you think--the spider," she gasped hoarsely "But my welfare as well as yours depends on the decision Stay here, or co herself froh the doorway and left the roo his shoulders angrily

He could do nothing but yield to this obstinate creature's will

In the atriu only by a wave of the hand; but before opening the side door which was to lead her into the open air, she paused, and asked bluntly in the language of their people: "Was Arachne--I don't mean the spider, but the weaver whom the Greeks call by that name--a woman like the rest of us? Yet it is said that she reoddess Athene"

"That is perfectly true," answered Bias, "but she had to atone cruelly for this triuoddess struck her on the forehead with the weaver's shuttle, and when, in her sha herself, she was transformed into the spider"

Ledscha stood still, and, while drawing the veil over her pallid face, asked with quivering lips, "And is there no other Arachne?"