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When he removed to the city house the next day, he had not yet found tied the estate of Myrtilus, and wished to give Hermon an account of his inheritance, was refused by the blind artist, who assured hireatly increased rather than diminished his property, and thanked him sincerely and war sculptor very soon thought he had good reason to be satisfied with his choice

Most of his friends were busy artists, and what loss of time every visit to the remote villa would have ied to use to reach home from the bath, where he often spent s of fashionable people in the Paneuhway in the Brucheium All these places were very far from the villa It would have required whole hours, too, to reach a famous cookshop in the Canopus, at whose table he liked to asseuests or revel with his friends The theatre, the Odeus, as well as the houses of his best friends, and especially the beautiful Glycera, were easily reached fro the temples, that of Demeter, which he often visited to pray, offer sacrifices, and rejoice in the power of attraction which his statue of the goddess exerted upon the multitude It stood at the back of the cella in a place accessible to the priesthood alone, visible only through the open doors, upon a pedestal which his fellow-artists pronounced rather too high Yet his offer to have it made smaller was not accepted, because had it been lower the devout supplicants who stood there to pray could not have raised their eyes to it

It was not only at the festivals of the dead that he went to the Greek cenificent monument erected for his dead mother If his head ached after a nocturnal carouse, or the disagreeable alar chill stole over him which he had felt for the first time when he falsely answered Thyone that he was still under the ban of Neifts, had sacrifices offered to the souls of the beloved dead, and in this way soained a portion of his lost peace ofalways dispelled whatever still oppressed hih months had elapsed since his brilliant reception, he was still numbered, especially in artist circles, with the er stood in any one's way; conversation gained energy and h the vivacity of his fervid intellect, which seemed actually deepened by his blindness when questions concerning art were at issue, and fro orders