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"You don't like my old pupil, Halcyone?" Mr. Carlyon said when they got to the gap in the hedge. "Tell me, what do you see at the other side of his head?" "Himself," was all she answered as she bounded lightly away laughing, and was soon lost to view in the copse beyond. And Cheiron, considerably amused, returned to his prostrate guest to find him with a frown upon his face.
Peleus, the father of Achilles, had for his friend, Cheiron, the wisest of the Centaurs of those immortals who are half men and half horse. Cheiron it was who gave to Peleus his great spear. And when Peleus desired to wed an immortal, Zeus, the greatest of the gods, prevailed upon the nymph Thetis to marry him, although marriage with a mortal was against her will.
If you will hold her, I will run out and see if all is safe; and then we can carry her to the summer house and take off her scarf." Cheiron held out his arms to receive the precious bundle; and he could feel by its weight it was a marble head.
Once as she struggled alone, without spear, with a terrible lion, he of the wide quiver, far-darting Apollo, found her: and straightway he called Cheiron from his hall and spake to him aloud: 'Son of Philyra, come forth from thy holy cave, and behold and wonder at the spirit of this woman, and her great might, what strife she wageth here with soul undaunted, a girl with heart too high for toil to quell; for her mind shaketh not in the storm of fear.
"It is settled, then," said Cheiron, "at five o'clock I will be upon the terrace." Halcyone returned to her grammar, and silence obtained between them. Then presently Mr. Carlyon spoke. "I am going to have a visitor for a week or perhaps more," he announced. A startled pair of eyes looked up at him. "That seems odd," Halcyone said. "I hope whoever it is will not be much in our way.
"There is an old gentleman who has bought the orchard house and he says he will teach me Greek and I already know a number of other tiresome things." Halcyone had not meant to tell her aunts anything about Cheiron this new-found joy but she reasoned after she heard of Mademoiselle's non-return that the knowledge that she would have some instructor might have weight with those in charge of her.
Then a great fear fell on Jason; but after a while he grew light of heart; and he blessed old Cheiron, and said: "Surely the Centaur is a prophet, and guessed what would come to pass, when he bade me speak harshly to no soul whom I might meet." Then he went down toward Iolcos, and as he walked, he found that he had lost one of his sandals in the flood.
But then she recollected the evening postman did not come to the house, and they got no letters as Cheiron did, who was on the road. Hers could not be there until the morning she must wait patiently and see. With consummate self-control she made her voice sound natural as she said, "Oh, I am so late, Mrs. Porrit.
Presently a set of disjointed sentences flowed from her master's lips between his puffs of smoke. "Girl worth something showy honest sure of herself clever pretty on her own roots not a graft." "Girl" who was the girl? Halcyone wondered. But Cheiron continued his laconic utterances.
The old gentleman Cheiron and old William and the timid curate who came to dine on Saturday nights once a month were about the only male creatures Halcyone had ever spoken to within her recollection their rector was a confirmed invalid and lived abroad but Priscilla had a supreme contempt for them as a sex.
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