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"But would not a great love," asked Thyone, "suffice to repay tenfold the perishable gifts that can be bought with gold and silver?"

"No, and again no!" Her else would blend with the love I brought to thethat ht offer; for I seea resentful misanthrope if I a and, conde except allow loomy mood of her unfortunate husband would sadden Daphne's existence even h I should strive with all th to bear patiently, with her dear aid, the burden ih the darkness with joyous courage, like many another blind man, I could not succeed"

"You are a nantly, "and what thousands have done before you--"

"There," he loudly protested, "I should surely fail; for, you dear woman, who mean so kindly by me, my fate is worse than theirs Do you knohat just forced from my lips the exclamation of pain which alarone, for whose sake you are so well disposed toward ed to the altar is certain of death Of all the goddesses, there is only one in whose power I believe, and to whom I just raised my hands in prayer It is the terrible one to whom I was delivered by hate and the deceived love which is now dragging me by the hair, and will rob and torture ht, whom no one escapes, dread Nemesis"

Thyone sank down into the chair by the blind artist's side, asking softly, "And what gave you into her avenging hands, hapless boy?"

"My own abo that it would relieve his heart to pour out to this true friend what he would usually have confided only to his Myrtilus, he hurriedly related how he had recognised in Ledscha the best ht her love, and then, detained by Althea, left her in the lurch and ave a brief but vivid description of his irl in the Temple of Nemesis, how Ledscha had invoked upon hioddess, and how the most horrible punishment had fallen upon him directly after the harsh accusation of the Biamite