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Updated: May 10, 2025
He is no more inclined to receive orders from others; he wants to take command himself. The work most suitable to him now is to guide and rule within his own sphere. This is the point where Jupiter culminates, and where the man of fifty years is at his best. I cannot find a place for Neptune, as this planet has been very thoughtlessly named; because I may not call it as it should be called Eros.
"My lord?" he exclaimed for, indeed, up to this last moment he had been quite sure in his mind that her trouble had to do with Erös Béla and with her impudent flirtation of this afternoon.
Profoundly disappointed at my non-success, and bitterly mortified at the insults to which I had been subjected by boarding the Yankee, I moodily returned to the Dolphin and, upon mounting to the deck, ordered the gig to be hoisted and the helm to be put up in order that we might return to the Eros, the royals of which were now just rising above the horizon to the westward.
"Have I no voice in the matter?" said Rhodopis, smiling through her tears. On hearing these words, Bartja and Sappho each took one of her hands, and gazed entreatingly into her face. She rose to her full stature, and like a prophetess exclaimed: "Eros, who brought you to each other, Zeus and Apollo defend and protect you.
Antony's son has inherited much of his father's insatiable love of pleasure. But Caesarion! He has not yet ventured out of the dreamland which surrounds him into actual life. What others scarcely perceive deals him a serious blow. I fear Eros is sharpening arrows for him which will pierce deep into his heart. While talking with me he seemed strangely changed.
"Then it was that we gave to each other the long pledge, often on the lips of lovers since Eros strung his bow, but never more deeply felt. "'I am sure the sky will clear soon, she said to me at last. "Indeed as I bade them good night, I saw encouraging signs of that. Sir Benjamin had taken a liking to me.
"In three or four days," he answered carelessly; "then Myrtilus and I will be expected in Alexandria. But gently gently how pale you are, girl! Yes, the parting! But in six weeks at latest I shall be here again; then real life will first begin, and Eros will make the roses bloom for us."
"The flowers of the saints and martyrs!" she said, "I do not wonder that the artists chose them for that purpose; they are so white-and pure-and passionless . . ." A slight crash disturbed her self-communion, and she hastened to see what had fallen. It was a small clay figure of "Eros", a copy of a statuette found in the ruins of Pompeii. The nail supporting its bracket had given way.
What you call magic, when I practice it, Eros, the great god of love, has wrought a thousand times in your breast.
Under the chaplain's guidance they selected many hideous presents and mementoes florid little picture-frames that seemed fashioned in gilded pastry; other little frames, more severe, that stood on little easels, and were carven out of oak; a blotting book of vellum; a Dante of the same material; cheap mosaic brooches, which the maids, next Christmas, would never tell from real; pins, pots, heraldic saucers, brown art-photographs; Eros and Psyche in alabaster; St.
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