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Corinna became Helena's ideal: the divinely inspired poetess who like the nun of the middle-ages, had vowed a vow of chastity, so that she might lead a life of purity, who was, of course, admired by a brilliant throng, rose to immeasurable heights above the heads of the petty every-day mortals.
I have had a hard life," said Alice, and her lower lip, as soft as a baby's, trembled nervously. How little character there was in her face, how little of anything except that indefinable allurement of sex! "I know," responded Corinna consolingly. She felt so strong beside this helpless, frightened woman that the old ache to comfort, to heal pain, was like a pang in her heart.
When it comes to the point, I believe that Stephen will revert to type like the rest of us." Mrs. Culpeper clutched desperately at the straw that was offered her. "You think he won't ask her to marry him?" "If he does," said Corinna firmly, "I shall be more surprised than I have ever been in my life." The look of martyrdom faded slowly from her visitor's features.
There is a good deal about Vetch, by the way, that reminds me of Corinna." "Father!" gasped Corinna. "Stephen, do you think he has gone out of his mind?" "That is the first sign that wisdom has broken its cage," commented her father. "No, my dear, I did not mean that you look like him; you are far handsomer.
But Pausanias, who states that she defeated Pindar no less than five times, thinks that her personal charms may have had something to do with the matter. While teaching Pindar, Corinna once offered to beautify his earlier efforts with mythological allusions.
Corinna, meanwhile, was rolling down the drive over the slanting shadows of the linden trees. She looked thoughtful, for she was trying to decide what it was about Vetch that made her believe in him so profoundly when she was with him and yet begin to distrust him as soon as she got far enough away to gain a perspective? Gossip probably, she reflected.
She was nothing; and therefore every man would see in her the reflection of what he desired. "I have the right," she answered desperately, without pride and without shame. "I had the right before I got my divorce " "I understand," said Corinna, and her voice was scarcely more than a breath.
"Life is so uncertain fine impulses even love yes, love most of all is so uncertain " "Of course you feel that way," responded the girl, sympathetic but incredulous. "How could you help it?" After this what could Corinna answer? She knew Stephen, she told herself, and she knew that she could trust him.
She turned to enter the house, and Patty, without so much as a look at Stephen's face, went slowly after her. As the car passed through the deserted streets, Corinna placed her hand on Patty's with a reassuring pressure. Without appearing to do so, she was studying the girl's soft profile, now flashing out in a sudden sharp light, now melting back again into the vagueness of the shadows.
Contemporary with Pindar and Corinna were Phidias, Alcamenes, and many other sculptors, together with poets, philosophers, warriors, and statesmen; men whose names will rise superior to the lapse of time, and whose fame, like the rocky barriers of the ocean, on which the elements in vain expend their fury, will be of equal duration with the world itself.
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