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In Ruth's gaze I read a nameless fear, a half shuddering fascination. But she was not looking at the cavern dragons. Her gaze was fixed upon what at my first glance seemed to be a raised and patterned circle in the dust-covered floor. Not more than a foot in width, it shone wanly with a pale, metallic bluish luster, as though, I thought, it had been recently polished.
The dragons that guarded this table of the Hesperides found out the trick at last, and kept a sharp look-out for missing forks; they knew where to find one, if it was not in its place. Now the odd thing was, that, after waiting so many years to hear of this college trick, I should hear it mentioned a second time within the same twenty-four hours by a college youth of the present generation.
How doth one win such honours and acclaim and reach the high estate that thou dost laud? "The minstrel gazed a little space into the Yule log's flame, and stroked his long hoar beard. Then made he answer: "'Some win their spurs and earn the royal accolade because the blood of dragons stains their hands. From mighty combat with these terrors they come victorious to their king's reward.
Above it is a canopy with sculptured medallions on the under-surface, where the symbolical Lamb may be recognised amongst winged dragons and other monsters. Close to these is a monkey playing on the violin. Above this canopy is another, shaped like a low gable, and forming the upper frame of a further set of figures in relief, larger than those in the compartment below.
Nevertheless, I am sure, such is the frailty of man, that were it to be all over again I would do in this matter all I had done before. In fact, I was grasping the truth of what I had often laughed at that there is none so skilled in making dragons out of beetles as the man who is in love and knows not if he is winning or losing.
You have sown dragons' teeth, and warriors have sprung up to revenge me upon you. Serve yourself of your riches to fight the combatants. See if you can bargain for a quiet conscience as easily as you purchased me! My soul is free though, and it hovers over you as the spirit of revenge. Beware!" She slowly turned and quitted the room. Her diamonds sparkled and blazed in the myriads of lights.
These clefts are found full of a kind of gum; which, decocted and depurated, is the dragons- blood of the apothecaries . The tree bears a yellow fruit, round like like a cherry, and well tasted. This island produces the best honey and wax in the world, but not in any quantity.
Yet here I saw one living and moving before me an actual dragon, with the exception of a tail; for that appendage, which plays so great a part in all the pictures of dragons, had no place here. This beast had but a short caudal appendage, and all its terrors lay in its jaws and in its wings. For a moment I stood almost lifeless with terror and surprise.
"Why, our villagers are the biggest story-tellers in all the country round. It's a known fact. You're a stranger in these parts, or else you'd have heard it already. All they want is a fight. They're the most awful beggars for getting up fights it 's meat and drink to them. Dogs, bulls, dragons anything so long as it's a fight.
The signals on the hills leaped into the crisp air like the tongues of dragons in the myths of the ancients; in fact, the whole aspect of the place, as we sat around the blazing logs of our camp-fire, was weird and uncanny.
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