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He recalled the sacred lake of Muth in Thebes, round which sat a hundred statues of the lion-headed Goddess in black basalt, each on a pedestal; and the rocky peaks, which surrounded the valley at his feet, seemed to put on a semblance of life and to move and open their yawning jaws; through the wild rush of blood in his ears he fancied he heard them roar, and the load beyond his strength which he carried gave him a sensation as though their clutch was on his breast.
Fly, therefore, my son. I myself will guard you till you stand before your father's door." The goddess then disappeared and AEneas quickly proceeded to obey her command. Hastening home he resolved to take his aged father to a place of safety in the hills beyond the city, but the old man refused to go.
If the sacred tree which he guarded with his life was supposed, as seems probable, to be her special embodiment, her priest may not only have worshipped it as his goddess but embraced it as his wife. There is at least nothing absurd in the supposition, since even in the time of Pliny a noble Roman used thus to treat a beautiful beech-tree in another sacred grove of Diana on the Alban hills.
Now tell me, you monster, is there anything nobler than a woman? Is there a higher aim than to win her love?" "No; that is true, there is nothing higher!" cried he passionately. "No there is nothing nobler. Oh, forgive me, Ludovicka, I was a heathen, who denies his goddess, and finds fault with her out of excess of feeling. My God! I have suffered so much through you and your cruelty!
She was believed to have been born in Cyprus, the isle beloved of mariners. On those shores where the poets made the triumphant beauty of Aphrodite spring from the foam, the women of the island run by night in search of mariners to offer themselves in memory of the goddess. Sónnica was the fruit of one such alligation with a rower.
Now when she had wrought thus, that fair goddess departed, and the white-armed handmaidens came forth from the chamber and drew nigh with a sound of voices. Then sweet sleep left hold of Penelope, and she rubbed her cheeks with her hands, and said: 'Surely soft slumber wrapped me round, most wretched though I be.
"Well, I'm in the same boat," he answered glibly. "There's only one girl for me!" "Magnificent!" cried the Governor. "I hope she's not beyond your reach like my goddess?" "Well, I'll hardly say that," Archie replied. "But there are difficulties, embarrassments, you know." "Possibly your choice of the open road as a career is a bar to marriage? Such situations are always deplorable."
Getting more and more momentum with every oscillation, the heart finally struck against a sharp cornice, when lo all the sawdust fell out of the canvas bag they had worshipped as the heart of flesh of their goddess. How they reconciled the existence of the heart of the Virgin with their belief that she ascended to heaven in a bodily form I do not pretend to imagine.
However, he was all the world to me. Therefore his welfare was what I wished and wish, and I think he would have had more of it if he had never married me." "Why?" I asked again. "Because I brought him no good luck, did I? I needn't go through all the story as you know it. And in the end it was through me that he was killed in Egypt." "Or through the goddess Isis," I broke in rather nervously.
Then remembering that these womanly attributes were a bride's best dowry, Laura gave herself to their attainment, that she might become to another household the blessing Nan had been to her own; and turning from the worship of the goddess Beauty, she gave her hand to that humbler and more human teacher, Duty, learning her lessons with a willing heart, for Philip's sake.
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