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While the chorus continued their song, and the welcorew louder, the brilliant picture faded away, but in return he felt friendly arms clasp him First Archias, then Proclus, and after hireatest of all--drew him into a warm embrace

Finally he felt himself led away, placed his feet as his Uncle Archias whispered directions, and as they gropingly obeyed them ascended the temple steps and stood in utter darkness upon the platfor to the speeches which so uished men in the city expressed their sympathy, their pity, their admiration, their hopes, or sent assurances of them to him The Rhodian Chrysippus, despatched by the Queen, delivered the wreath which the s, that Arsinoe deemed his Demeter worthy of the laurel

The reat scholars from the Museum, the whole priesthood of Demeter, which included Daphne, the servants of Apollo, his dear Ephebi, the comrades of his physical exercises--all whoood wishes, as well as the assurance of their pride in nu them

No form, no colour fro hie of the woman he loved Only his ears enabled hiratulations lavished here and, though he soain listened willingly and intently when a new speaker addressed hiy What share compassion for his unprecedentedly sorrowful fate had in this extravagantly laudatory and cordial greeting, he did not ask; he only felt with a throbbing heart that he now stood upon a summit which he had scarcely ventured to hope ever to attain His dreams of outward success which had not been realized, because he deemed it treason to his art to deviate froht and best adapted to it, he noithout having yielded to the demands of the old school, heard praised as his well-earned possessions

He felt as if he breathed the lighter, purer air of the realms of the blessed, and the laurel crohich the Queen's envoy pressed upon his brow, the wreaths which his fellow-artists presented to hireat sculptor Protogenes, and Nicias, the most ads on the hat and shoes of Herods, to raise him out of hiht dazzling light issued froolden radiance of the sun