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"Then ith twofold zeal upon the Arachne"

"Although one ed froerly, and he nodded assent

Daphne clapped her hands joyfully, exclai up with a jerk "It could not help being so! O Herht, when this horrible woman represented the transformation into the spider with such repulsive accuracy, Herht, ideal; nay, I was deceived ined this Arachne inoverpowered me!"

"Of course!" he replied in an irritated tone "The thirst for beauty, to which you all succumb, would not have much satisfaction to expect from this work"

"No, no, no!" Daphne interrupted in a louder tone than usual, and with the earnest desire to convince him "Precisely because I transported nised the danger O Herht of the la--the strands of hair, the outspread fingers, the bewildered, staring blue eyes--do you not feel yourself how artificial, how unnatural it all was? This transfor ht of Apollo, the foe of all deception, ould this Arachne probably becoine her executed in old and ivory! Beauty? Who would expect to find in the active, constantly toiling weaver, the hter of an industrious dyer in purple, the cal charm of divine woh to do so The degree of beauty Althea possesses would entirely satisfy ine a plastic work faithful to the reat deal withat it: This statue cae, but never from Nature Such would be my view, and I a, with his thorough connoisseurship and fine taste, es, how much more keenly they would perceive and define it!"

Here she hesitated, for the blood had left Hermon's cheeks, and she saith surprise the deep impression which the candid expression of her opinion had produced upon the artist, usually so independent and disposed to contradiction Her judgment had undoubtedly disturbed, nay, perhaps convinced him; but at the same time his features revealed such deep depression that, far fro in so rare a success, she patted his ar: "You have not yet found time to realize calmly what yesterday dazzled us all--and you," she added in a lower tone, "the ly"