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"That thy relation to Desmotes is indiscreet. That it is equivocal. That it is offensive. That it is sacrilegious. That, in a word, it is improper." Elenko defended herself with as much energy as her candour would allow. "Dear friend," said the Princess, "thou dost not imagine that I have part or lot in these odious imputations?
It is also repugnant to his feelings to deny a beloved niece anything on which she has set her heart. To avoid such grievous dilemma, I judge it well that ye both ascend to heaven without further ceremony." That night the ascent of Prometheus and Elenko was witnessed by divers credible persons. The new church was consecrated shortly afterwards.
The representatives of seven monasteries put in their claims for the links of Prometheus's fetters, but the Bishop scouted them all. He found time to whisper to Elenko: "You seem a sensible young person. Just hint to our friend that we don't want to hear anything about his theology, and the less he talks about the primitive Church the better.
She remained silent but she crossed herself. "Who then has persuaded thee to renounce Apollo?" Elenko pointed to Prometheus. "An enemy of Zeus, then?" "Zeus has not such another enemy in the world." "I knew it, I was sure of it," exclaimed the Bishop. "I can always tell a Christian when I see him. Wherefore speaks he not?" "He is ancient, for all his vigorous mien.
The warmth with which Elenko espoused this view raised her greatly in his good opinion, and he was always ready to come to her aid when she became entangled in chronological or historical difficulties, or seasoned her versions of Desmotes' speeches with reminiscences of Plato or Marcus Aurelius, or when her invention failed altogether.
Aphrodite's dress was admirable for summer, but in winter seemed obstinate conservatism; and why should Pallas make herself a fright with her Gorgon helmet, now that it no longer frightened anybody? Where Elenko would fain have adored she found herself tolerating, excusing, condescending.
Prometheus stood by her, and pointed out in the immeasurable distance the little speck of shining dust from which they had flown. "There? or here?" he asked. "There!" said Elenko.
He had heard the shields of the Corybantes clash around the infant Zeus; he described to Elenko how one day the sea had frothed and boiled, and undraped Aphrodite had ascended from it in the presence of the gazing and applauding amphitheatre of cloud-cushioned gods. He could depict the personal appearance of Cybele, and sketch the character of Enceladus.
Elenko intimated, perhaps with more warmth than necessary, her aversion to both propositions, and the extreme improbability of the Princess ever acquiring any knowledge of Greek by her instrumentality. "If this is the case," said the Princess, with perfect calmness, "I must have recourse to my other method, which is infallible." Elenko inquired what it might be.
Everybody was satisfied except the Princess Miriam, who never ceased to deplore her indulgence in giving Elenko the chance of first speech with her uncle. "If I had been five minutes beforehand with the minx!" she said. The heaven to which Prometheus and Elenko had ascended was situated in a sequestered valley of Laconia.
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