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"Yet not like mushrooms," Hermon interrupted, "but as the noblest, most carefully executed creations of art-sculpture and painting provide for their decoration both without and within"

"And," Proclus went on, "abodes are erected for the gods as well as for yptian and Hellenic divinities, each in their own style, and so beautiful that it must be a pleasure for theardens of the Paneu to Thyone, added gaily: "Then you must climb thethe winding path You will find enough to do to look at all the new sights You will stand there with dry feet, but your soul will bathe in eternal, imperishable, divine beauty"

"The foe of beauty!" exclailance; but Daphne, full of joyous emotion, whispered to Hermon as he approached her: "Eternal, divine beauty! To hear it thus praised by you makes me happy"

"Yes," cried the artist, "what else should I call what has so often filled e has no s that hovered before me, and which I called by that cha from what appears before you at its sound Were I to call it truth, you would scarcely understand e of Alexandria, with all that springs fro with such marvellous freedom, naturalness, and variety within it, it is not alone the beauty that pleases the eye which delights enuine, abundant life To truth, Daphne, as I oblet as he spoke and drank to her

She willingly pledged hierly exclaimed: "Show it to us, with the mind which animates it, in perfect foruished frooal"

Here the helht of Pelusiulare fro the ain concealed the moon

There was no further connected conversation, for the sea was now rising and falling in broad, leaden, aluests was destroyed, and the ladies uttered a sigh of relief when they had descended froalley and the boats that conveyed them ashore, and their feet once more pressed the solid land The party of travellers went to the conificent palace to rest, and Hermon also retired to his room, but sleep fled from his couch