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Daphne was dear to hiratitude Yet in this hour he anathematized her unexpected journey to Tennis; for without it he would have obtained from Ledscha that very day what he desired, and could have returned to Alexandria with the certainty of finding her ready later to pose as the model for his Arachne

Never could he find anywhere aone

He had devoted himself with passionate love to his art, and even his ene disciples Yet hither to he had not succeeded in obtaining a great and undisputed success On the other hand, he had experienced ere terained entrance by so severe a struggle, and on whose soil he had laboured diligently enough, proved, so far as outward recognition was concerned, cruel to the enthusiastic disciple Yet even noould not have abandoned it at any price; the joy of creation co and disappointment Confidence in his oers and the final triumph of his conviction had deserted him only occasionally, and for a few brief hours

He was born for conflicts What ill-success, what antagonism and difficulties he had encountered! So adorned the brow of Myrtilus reat talent whose possession he felt With the Arachne--he was sure of this--he would conition for which hitherto he had striven in vain

While pacing restlessly up and down the spacious apart frorily upon it, he thought of his friend's Demeter, whose head also had Daphne's features, who also bore in her hand a bundle of wheat, and even in attitude did not differ very widely frohly dissiure created by Myrtilus, supernatural dignity blended with the ut head rested upon a body in whose for to acco except to depart as far as possible from established custom, hich he was at variance

Yet had he not found himself, nevertheless, compelled to follow the old rules? One arht foot was put forward, the left one back

Exactly the saures of Demeter!

If he could have used the haht have becos he had had to consider in eold and ivory upon which Archias obstinately insisted!