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Pharnabazus came down to raise the siege, and Hippokrates, the harmost of the city, led out his forces and attacked the Athenians at the same time. Alkibiades arranged his army so as to be able to fight them both at once, forced Pharnabazus to retreat with disgrace, killed Hippokrates, and put his force to flight with severe loss.
The leaves of the sumach-tree were glistening; in a three-cornered little patch of sunlight, a black cat with a blue ribbon round its neck was basking. The voice of one hawking strawberries drifted melancholy from a side street. She was conscious that Monsieur Harmost was standing very still, with a hand pressed to his mouth, and she felt a perfect passion of compunction and anger.
That afternoon she dressed herself with pleasure, for the first time for months, and sallied forth into the February frost. Monsieur Edouard Harmost inhabited the ground floor of a house in the Marylebone Road. He received his pupils in a large back room overlooking a little sooty garden.
That kind and harmless old man to be so insulted! This was indeed the culmination of all Gustav's outrages! She would never forgive him this! For he had insulted her as well, beyond what pride or meekness could put up with. She turned, and, running up to the old man, put both her hands into his. "I'm so awfully sorry. Good-bye, dear, dear Monsieur Harmost; I shall come on Friday!"
When, after a minute or so of the friendliest embarrassment, he had retired to wait for her, Gyp sat down to her lesson. Monsieur Harmost said quietly: "Your letter was very kind, my little friend and your father is very kind. But, after all, it was a compliment your husband paid me." His smile smote Gyp; it seemed to sum up so many resignations. "So you stay again with your father!"
A faint grin slowly settled in his beard, but his eyes were startled. Fiorsen kissed the back of his own hand. "To this old Pantaloon you come to give your heart. Ho what a lover!" Gyp saw the old man quiver; she sprang up and cried: "You brute!" Fiorsen ran forward, stretching out his arms toward Monsieur Harmost, as if to take him by the throat. The old man drew himself up.
In the various cities which had belonged to the Athenian empire Lysander established an oligarchical Council of Ten, called a DECARCHY or Decemvirate, subject to the control of a Spartan HARMOST or governor.
The Greek in whom he placed most confidence was Clearchus, a Lacedaemonian, and formerly harmost of Byzantium, who had been condemned to death by the Spartan authorities for disobedience to their orders. It was not, however, till the beginning of the year B.C. 401 that the enterprise of Cyrus was ripe for execution.
But for her, there would be nothing on his mind, for he would not be married! Brooding morbidly, she asked herself his drinking, debts, even the girl had she caused them, too? And when she tried to free him and herself this was the result! Was there something fatal about her that must destroy the men she had to do with? She had made her father unhappy, Monsieur Harmost Rosek, and her husband!
At home, she practised steadily and worked hard at composition. She finished several songs and studies during the spring and summer, and left still more unfinished. Monsieur Harmost was tolerant of these efforts, seeming to know that harsh criticism or disapproval would cut her impulse down, as frost cuts the life of flowers. Besides, there was always something fresh and individual in her things.
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