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Four were they, like unto goddesses, all in the bloom of youth, Callidice, and Cleisidice, and winsome Demo, and Callithoe the eldest of them all, nor did they know her, for the Gods are hard to be known by mortals, but they stood near her and spake winged words: "Who art thou and whence, old woman, of ancient folk, and why wert thou wandering apart from the town, nor dost draw nigh to the houses where are women of thine own age, in the shadowy halls, even such as thou, and younger women, too, who may kindly entreat thee in word and deed?"
And then the Countess, leaning from the carriage, said, with archness in her efficient smile: "You do pick things up easily, don't you?" And both Demo and the Countess laughed without restraint, and the pillars of Bursley society were mystified. Denry winked at Jock as the horses pawed away. And Jock winked back. The envied of all, Denry walked home, thinking violently.
Councillor Cotterill said frankly that one reason for their calling at Llandudno was his desire to see this singular lifeboat, about which there had really been a very great deal of talk in the Five Towns. The admission comforted Denry. Then the Councillor recommenced his young-manning. "Look here," said Demo, carelessly, "you must come and dine with me one night, all of you will you?"
And both she and Demo tried to look as if the victoria had stopped in that special spot for a special reason, and that the mule was a pattern of obedience. Nevertheless, the little crowd was growing a little larger. "Now," said the Countess, encouragingly. The tail of the regiment of policemen had vanished towards the Institute. "Tchk! Tchk!" Denry persuaded the mule.
The thought of actually initiating legislation left a loyal Demo- cratic follower transfixed. The heavy dignity of the Senate forbade their meddling much in this controversy over tactics. Also they were more interested in the sporting prospect of our going into the world war. There was no appeal to blood-lust in the women's fight. There were no shining rods of steel. There was no martial music.
Demo was yawning, not in the least because the proceedings failed to excite his keen interest, but because he had been a journalist till three a.m. and had risen at six in order to despatch a communication to the editor of the Staffordshire Signal by train. The girls were very playful. Nellie dropped a piece of chocolate into Ruth's glass, and Ruth fished it out, and bit at it.
Three persons stood on the newly-washed marble step Mr and Mrs Cotterill and their daughter. "Oh! Come in! Come in! Make yourselves quite at home. That's what we're doing," said Demo in blithe greeting; and added, "I suppose he's invited you too?" And it appeared that Mr Cecil Wilbraham had indeed invited them too.
It was also matter of wonder that, though he had objected so much to Phila on account of her age, he was yet such a slave to Lamia, who was so long past her prime. One evening at supper, when she played the flute, Demetrius asked Demo, whom the men called Madness, what she thought of her. Demo answered she thought her an old woman.
In America at that very moment women were being told that no attempt at electoral reform had any place in the country's program "until the war is over." The Demo- crats met in caucus and decided that only "war measures" should be included in the legislative program, and announced that no subjects would be considered by them, unless the President urged them as war measures.
And when a quantity of sweetmeats were brought in, and the king said again, "See what presents I get from Lamia!" "My old mother," answered Demo, "will send you more, if you will make her your mistress." Another story is told of a criticism passed by Lamia or the famous judgment of Bocchoris. A young Egyptian had long made suit to Thonis, the courtesan, offering a sum of gold for her favor.
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