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"You are a teachable pupil," said Croesus, laying his hand on her head, "and as a reward, you shall be allowed either to visit Kassandane, or to receive Atossa in the hanging-gardens, every morning, and every afternoon until sunset." This joyful news was received with loud rejoicings by Atossa, and with a grateful smile by the Egyptian girl.
Atossa raised her delicate eyebrows a little and a shade of annoyance passed for the first time over her perfect face, which gave her a look of sternness. "I am the queen," she said coldly. "The king may take other wives, but I am the queen. Take heed that you be indeed my servant."
Zoroaster moved it into the sunshine, and Atossa sat down, smiling her thanks to him, while he stood leaning against the balustrade, a magnificent figure as the light caught his gilded harness and gold neckchain, and played on his long fair beard and nestled in the folds of his purple mantle.
An hour passed, and still Nitetis and the lovely Atossa were sitting side by side, at the feet of the queen. The Persian women listened eagerly to all their new friend could tell them about Egypt and its wonders. "Oh! how I should like to visit your home!" exclaimed Atossa. "It must be quite, quite different from Persia and everything else that I have seen yet.
We may illustrate it by the passage in the Persae of Æschylus, where Atossa receives from a messenger the account of the battle of Salamis a passage which contains the famous lines describing the Greek onslaught on the Persian fleet: "'Then might you hear a mighty shout arise
Nitetis had fainted, and Atossa was sprinkling her forehead with wine as she lay in her arms. "What was it?" asked the blind Kassandane, when Nitetis had awakened to consciousness a few moments later. "The joy the happiness Tachot," faltered Nitetis. Cambyses, as well as his sister, had sprung to the fainting girl's help.
Cambyses stood by, pale and rigid, following the physician's slightest movements, and Atossa bathed her friend's forehead with her tears. "Let some milk be brought," cried Nebenchari, "and my large medicine- chest; and let attendants be called to carry her away, for quiet is necessary, above all things."
Has not Atossa been here several times?" "Yes." "And Cambyses stayed with Kassandane until sunrise; then he went out, mounted his horse Reksch, and rode into the game-park." "How do you know that?" "I saw it." Nebenchari looked anxiously into the girl's shining eyes. She went on: "A great many dogs have been brought into the court behind this house."
But after a while the Queen Atossa stood forward, saying, "For a while I was dumb, for the trouble that I heard suffered me not to speak. But we must bear what the Gods send. Tell me, therefore, who is yet alive? and for whom must we make lamentation?" "Know, O Queen," said the messenger, "that thy son, King Xerxes, is yet alive."
The time, however, soon came in which it was safe to display the Duchess of Marlborough under the name of Atossa, and her character was inserted with no great honour to the writer's gratitude. What he was upon moral principles ashamed to own he ought to have suppressed.
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