Page 116 (1/1)

He went, full of anxiety, to take his bath, and, while co the care of the adornment of his outer man to one of the household slaves, he determined that unless--as often happened in this country--the sun gained the victory over the clouds, he would return to Tennis and join Myrtilus

In the hall of the uests

They received hi; she seeht of her

Thyone and Daphne extended their hands to him all the more cordially

Philippus did not appear until after breakfast He had been detained by important despatches from Alexandria, and by questions and communications from Proclus The latter desired to ascertain whether the influential warrior who commanded the most important fortress in the country could be persuaded to join a conspiracy forainst her royal husband, but he seemed to have left Philippus with very faint hopes

Subordinate officers and ers also frequently claimed the co, however, the sturdy old soldier kindly fulfilled his duties as host by offering to show his guests the sights of the fortified seaport

Hermon also accompanied hiross her attention; for, though the iement of the wooden tohich, croith battle intervals, seeave theuests how safely the archers and slingers could be concealed behind the walls and battle the purpose of the great catapults on the outer to the ever-increasing roar of the waves which poured into the harbour froof the sails, which were being taken in everywhere--in short, to all the sounds occasioned by the rising violence of the wind

There were not a fear ships in the port and a size and unusual construction, but Hermon had already seen many similar ones

When, shortly after noon, the sun for a few briefrays the dark curtain that shrouded it froht, and then suddenly dense masses of clouds, driven from the sea by the terossed entirely by the uproar of the elements