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As she kept filling up my glass I reproached her, and this gave rise to the following little dialogue which completed my conquest. "You have no right to complain," said she, "Hebe's duty is to keep the cup of the chief of the gods always full." "Very good; but you know Jupiter sent her away." "Yes, but I know why.
As she kept filling up my glass I reproached her, and this gave rise to the following little dialogue which completed my conquest. "You have no right to complain," said she, "Hebe's duty is to keep the cup of the chief of the gods always full." "Very good; but you know Jupiter sent her away." "Yes, but I know why.
Hebe's pleasure and delight kept her silent; she shared my ecstasies, and mingled her happy tears with mine. I spent two hours in this manner, and then went to bed, impatient to renew the combat on the following day more at my ease and with greater comfort.
'By the Princess Hebe's being drawn at last beyond the prescribed bounds, by the cries and entreaties of that insidious girl, you are to learn, that whatever appearance of virtue any action may be attended with, yet if it makes you go contrary to the commands of those who know better what is for your good, than you do your selves, and who can see farther into the consequences of actions than can your tender years, it will certainly lead you into error and misfortune; and you find, as soon as the princess had once overleaped the bounds, another plausible excuse arose to carry her on; and by a false fear of incurring her mother's displeasure, she really deserved that displeasure, and was soon reduced into the power of her enemy.
I pretended to have forgotten something in my room, and going to my Hebe's chamber I found her in a terrible state, choking with sobs. I pressed her to my breast, and mingled my tears with hers; and then laying her gently in her bed, and snatching a last kiss from her trembling lips, I tore myself away from a place full of such sweet and agonizing memories.
The bride's resplendent costume and surpassing beauty put the blush upon the Queen of Sheba, made Hebe's effulgence fade as the moon before the sun; and as the long courtly train of knights errant and ladies-in-waiting passed the populace, they presented a regal spectacle, never equalled since the proud Cleopatra sailed down the perfumed lotus-bearing Nile in her gilded pageant to meet Marc Antony, while all the world stood agape at the unheard-of triumph.
While the curves of her fine form partook more of Juno's majestic frame than Hebe's pliant youth while the full sweep and outline of her figure denoted maturity and completeness in every part, the charming face, the large, gazelle eyes, the voluptuous ease of her attitude, the gentle languor of her whole bearing, constituted a woman which few susceptible young or even mature men could have looked on without misgivings that they might but too soon learn to long for the glances, the smiles, the witcheries which had made Helene Cecille Stille, in many respects, a counterpart of Helen of Troy.
"And kindness like their own Inspired those eyes, affectionate and glad, That seem'd to love whate'er they looked upon; Whether with Hebe's mirth her features shone, Or if a shade more pleasing them o'ercast Yet so becomingly th' expression past, That each succeeding look was lovelier than the last." Gertrude of Wyoming. The western wing of St.
Hebe's pleasure and delight kept her silent; she shared my ecstasies, and mingled her happy tears with mine. I spent two hours in this manner, and then went to bed, impatient to renew the combat on the following day more at my ease and with greater comfort.
"You speak of the haughtiness and the stern repellent demeanor of our Hebe's sister.
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