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The renified conduct at the Dionysia, and the shameful stories of her which he had heard returned to his mind At the sanity and kindly goodness, and a smile of satisfaction hovered around his lips as he said to hiain! But, in spite of ht neither in her net nor in the Queen's They are the last to bar the hich leads to Daphne and real happiness"

The Rhodian was just beginning to praise Arsinoe also as a special friend and connoisseur of the sculptor's art when Crates, Hermon's fellow-student, asked the blind artist, in behalf of his beautiful companion, why his Demeter was placed upon a pedestal which, to others as well as hih for the size of the statue

Hermon replied that he had heard several oddess refused to take it into account

Here he hesitated, for, like a blow froh his mind that perhaps, on the morrow, he would see himself compelled before the whole world to cast aside the crown of fame which he owed to the statue on the lofty pedestal He did not have even the re to deck himself with false renown if his dread was realized; yet he doubtless iined how this whole aristocratic circle, with the Queen, Althea, and Proclus at its head, would turn with reckless haste from the hapless man who had led them into such a shameful error

Yet what mattered it, even if these miserable people considered theer of scorn at hiht to accuse hih his heated brain like a flash of lightning, and when, in spite of his silence, the conversation was continued and Althea told the others that only Hermon's blindness had prevented the creation of a hich could have been confidently expected far to surpass the Demeter, since it seemed to have been exactly suited to his special talent, he answered his beautiful companion's remark curtly and absently

She perceived this with annoyance and perplexity

A woard of all men, and makes love a toy, easily lessens the deh love has wholly disappeared, she still claiard

When Amyntas, the head of the conspirators, attracted the attention of the co's sister, the Thracian laid her hand on the blind artist's are of the Arachne which, at Tennis, charry Zeus, completely vanished from your memory? How indifferent you look! But I tell you"--her deep blue eyes flashed as she spoke--"that so long as you were still a genuine creating artist the case was different Even while putting the last touches of the file to the Dehter posed as your model, another whoination Though so loud a denial is written on your face, I persist in my conviction, and that no idle delusion ensnares me I can prove!"