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As he came down from the stage on which he spoke, the rest of the women came and complimented him, taking him by the hand, and crownings him with garlands and ribbons, like a victorious athlete in the games; but Elpinice, coming near to him, said, "These are brave deeds, Pericles, that you have done, and such as deserve our chaplets; who have lost us many a worthy citizen, not in a war with Phoenicians or Medes, like my brother Cimon, but for the overthrow of an allied and kindred city."
"Ideal manhood closed in real man, Rather than that grey king, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain-peak, And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still; or him Of Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's, one Touched by the adulterous finger of a time That hovered between war and wantonness, And crownings and dethronements."
The lights along the Embankment, the excitement of the streets, the faces of London crowds, royal pageantry marriages, crownings, burials on the way to Westminster, the little dramas of London life, had been woven into the fiber of their thoughts, and it was the spirit of London which went with them wherever they walked in France or Flanders, more sensitive than country men to the things they saw.
He spoke of the canine operations for appendicitis, the canine tooth crownings, the canine wardrobes, and then he said: "How servants hate these pampered curs! At a house where I was calling one cold day the fat and pompous butler entered the drawing-room and said: "'Did you ring, madam? "'Yes, Harrison, I wish you to take Fido out walking for two hours. "Harrison frowned slightly.
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