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They were near enough to the basket for a goal; but Berenice's opponent covered her. The ball went flying direct across the cage. Louise made a dash; Hester sprang forward and covered her. In the excitement of the play, Hester had put forward two hands. Just as quickly she remembered and swung her right arm about Louise, while with her left hand, she tossed the ball straight into Renee's clutch.
She was the widow of a man named Philip; and she had by her first husband a son named Magas, whom Ptolemy made governor of Cyrene, and a daughter, Antigone, whom Ptolemy gave in marriage to Pyrrhus when that young king was living in Alexandria as hostage for Demetrius. Berenicê's mildness and goodness of heart were useful in softening her husband's severity.
The mass of the people, therefore all those, especially, who had taken no active part in Berenice's government were ready to welcome Ptolemy back to his capital. Those who had taken such a part were all summarily executed by Ptolemy's orders. There was, of course, a great excitement throughout the city on the arrival of the Roman army.
Coralie, with Berenice's assistance, undressed the poet with all a mother's tender care. "It is nothing," he murmured again and again. "It is the air. Thank you, mamma." "How charmingly he says 'mamma," cried Coralie, putting a kiss on his hair. "What happiness to love such an angel, mademoiselle! Where did you pick him up?
To be under the same roof with this adorable woman was all that he asked. The day after he had finished his picture, he returned to Chalfontaine for the midday breakfast. Berenice was absent in her room with a headache, her mother explained. The weather was sultry. He questioned Elaine during the meal. Had Berenice's temper improved?
When she ventured to look round, her eye fell on monstrous forms and mystical signs and figures; if she glanced upwards, she saw human and animal forms, and mixed with these the various constellations, sailing in boats the Egyptian notion of their motions along the back of a woman stretched out to an enormous length; or, again, figures by some Greek artist: the Pleiades, Castor and Pollux as horsemen with stars on their heads, and Berenice's star-gemmed hair.
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