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The black shadohich Althea's figure and lihted pedestal-no, it was no deception, it not only rese insects, it presented the exact picture of a spider

The Greek's slender body had contracted, her delicate ars, and thefor their prey like a spider, or preparing to wind thecreature

"Arachne, the spider!" fell al lips, and, overpowered by torturing fear, she was already turning away froe, when the storuests soothed her excited iination

Instead of the spider, a slender, lank woers spread wide apart, fluttering hair, and wandering eyes again stood before Ledscha

But no peace was yet granted to her throbbing heart, for while Althea, with perspiring brow and quivering lips, descended from the pedestal, and was received with loud delare of a flash of lightning burst through the clouds, and a loud peal of thunder shook the night air and reverberated a long ti from beneath the canopy

Thyone, the wife of Alexander the Great's coh absolutely fearless in the presence of huer Seized with sudden terror, she commanded a slave to obtain a black lamb for a sacrifice, and earnestly entreated her husband and her other coo on board the ship with her and seek shelter in its safe, rain-proof cabin, for already heavy drops were beginning to fall upon the tensely draning

"Nerammateus

"Ne Philotas to Daphne in a confidentialhis own costly purple cloak around her to shield her from the rain "Nowhere that we mortals overstep the bounds allotted to us do ait her in vain"

Then bending down to her again, he added, by way of explanation: "The winged daughter of Night would prove herself negligent if she allowedhappiness of being with you oncehipparch of the guards of the Diadochi, who had studied in Athens and belonged to the Peripatetics there "The nation which the good fortune of the base or the unworthy use of good fortune inspires in us She keeps the happysoldier looked around hi; the te most of the freedmen and slaves