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I, and the few Alexandrians who, following me, sacrifice beauty to truth, swim against the stream which bears you, Myrtilus, and those who are on your side, smoothly along. I know that you do it from thorough conviction, but with other acknowledged great artists and our judges, you, too, demand beauty always beauty. Am I right, or wrong?
While the steward was communicating this startling news as calmly as if everything was a matter of course, the events of the preceding night came back to Hermon's memory with perfect distinctness, and again the fear assailed him that the rescued Demeter was the work of Myrtilus, and not his own.
Threaten him seriously with my grave displeasure if he persists in leaving it speedily." "I will not fail to do my part," replied Myrtilus; "but as to your wish to see the two Demeters " "That will come to pass," interrupted Daphne, "as soon as we three are together again like a clover leaf."
Myrtilus crossed the threshold, turned to the Biamite, and said in his quiet, cheerful manner: "Where beautiful gifts are to be brought to Eros, it beseems the friend to strew with flowers the path of the one who is offering the sacrifices; and you, if everything does not deceive me, would fain choose to-night to serve him with the utmost devotion.
I will add it to the many for which I am already indebted to his friendship. As for art, he will go his own way, and any opposition would be futile. A goddess he perceives it himself was certainly the most unfortunate subject possible for his " "Is his Demeter a complete failure?" asked Daphne anxiously. "Certainly not," replied Myrtilus eagerly. "The head is even one of his very best.
What city would endure the maker of a law which should condemn a son or a grandson for a crime committed by the father or the grandfather? Shall Tantalus' unhappy offspring know No end, no close, of this long scene of woe? When will the dire reward of guilt be o'er, And Myrtilus demand revenge no more?
"Yet, should it really be a chimera, it is at any rate a sublime one," Myrtilus protested, "and whoever among us artists wanders through Nature with open eyes and heart, and then examines his own soul, will find it worth while to attempt to give his ideal form." "Whatever stirs my breast during such walks, unless it is some unusual human being, I leave to the poet," replied Hermon.
From Tanis they reached Tennis in a few hours, and found shelter in the home of the superintendent of Archias's weaving establishments, whose hospitality Myrtilus and Hermon had enjoyed before their installation in the white house, now burned to the ground. The Alexandrian bills of exchange were paid in gold by the lessee of the royal bank, who was a good friend of Hermon.
So what I banished from life I will also remove from art, and model nothing which might not meet me to-day or to-morrow." "Then, as an honest man, abstain altogether from making statues of the gods," interrupted his friend. "That was my intention long ago, as you are aware," the other answered. "You could not commit a worse robbery upon yourself," cried Myrtilus.
His uncle, who had managed the estate of Myrtilus, and wished to give Hermon an account of his inheritance, was refused by the blind artist, who assured him that he knew Archias had greatly increased rather than diminished his property, and thanked him sincerely and warmly.
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