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Our senses, at first so sharp set, end by becoming blunted, and when this is the case we may spend hours and days in safety, untroubled by desire." "I have my doubts as far as I am concerned, but we shall see. Good night, fair Hebe." "Good night, my good Iolas, may you sleep well!" "My sleep will be haunted by visions of you."
He will favour you with a visit to-morrow, perhaps, and you will remember his propensities." "Ah! who ever forgets a warning that relates to his purse!" "True!" said Tarleton, sighing. "Alas! my guinea, thou and I have parted company forever! vale, vale, inquit Iolas!"
"Sardini told me that Jupiter drove Hebe away, and now I ought to drive Jupiter away out of revenge." "Yes; but, my angel, I am Iolas, and not Jupiter. I adore you, and I seek to quench the desires which torture me." "This is a trick between you and Eleanore." "My dearest, it was all pure chance. I thought I should find you dressed, and I went in to wish you good day.
"I have foreseen all your objections, and that was the reason I made a mystery of it, but it has been arranged. You don't like it? Speak and tell me your pleasure." "Of course we like it, dear Iolas. The party will be charming, and perhaps, if we knew all, the very conditions are all for the best." "It may be so, but I may not tell you any more now." "And we will not press you."
"No, for fear you might disappoint me, for I love you, and I want everything to speak in your favour." "I know you might be disappointed, and consequently I must do everything in my power to preserve your good opinion." "Then you are satisfied with me?" "Surely. I am a good architect, and I think you are grandly built." "Stay, Iolas, do not touch me; it is enough that you have seen me."
You have made me young again." "I am very glad, dear Iolas; but remember what I did when he left me." "And what did you do? I do not remember." "I did not believe a word he said." "You can believe." "I took away the gift I had made." At these words this charming girl's face was suffered with blushes.
It was amongst her books, as also the version by Anguilara, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Marchetti's Lucreece. "But I wanted to read the Pastor Fido." "We are in a hurry; we must read that another time." "I will follow your advice in all things, my dear Iolas." "That will make me happy, dearest Hebe."
You have made me young again." "I am very glad, dear Iolas; but remember what I did when he left me." "And what did you do? I do not remember." "I did not believe a word he said." "You can believe." "I took away the gift I had made." At these words this charming girl's face was suffered with blushes.
I will forgive the bad grammar, bad style, absurd images, faulty method, and even the verses that won't scan." "That's too much, Iolas; Hebe doesn't need so vast a pardon as all that. Here, sir, these are my scribblings; sift the faults and the defaults. Read what you will."
Above all he feared Antipater and his sons, one of whom, Iolas, was his chief cup-bearer, while the other, Kassander, had but recently arrived from Greece, and as he had been trained in the Greek fashion, and had never seen any Oriental customs before, he burst into a loud, insolent laugh, when he saw some of the natives doing homage to Alexander.
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