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Johnson said to me, 'After the uncertainty of all human things at Hector's, this invitation came very well. We walked about the town, and he was pleased to see it increasing. Mr. Lloyd joined us in the street; and in a little while we met Friend Hector, as Mr. Lloyd called him. It gave me pleasure to observe the joy which Johnson and he expressed on seeing each other again. Mr.
His daughter wedded Hector brazen-helmed, And met him then; and with her came a maid, Who bore in arms a playful-hearted babe An infant still, akin to some fair star, Only and well-loved child of Hector's house, Whom he had named Scamandrios, but the rest Astyanax, because his sire alone Upheld the weal of Ilion the holy.
So I went straight out to the dining-room; and all I found on the table was some dry bread toasted and a baked apple without cream or sugar. It gave me a pretty good idea of what the general run of her meals must have been. I had a long talk with her that night, and I wormed it out of her that Hector's college expenses were about twenty-five dollars a month, which left her six to live on.
And although at first she regarded with favor her husband's kind intention toward Hector, she faced entirely round when he showed her a letter he had from his son thanking him for his generosity, and communicating his intention of begging Annie to come to him and be married at once. Annie was living at home, feeding on Hector's letters, and strengthened by her mother's sympathy.
He was unwilling to discharge his own gun, not knowing at what moment he might require it to defend himself from the wolves. He, therefore, only shouted as before. He listened, and fancied that above the yelping chorus he could distinguish Hector's voice. Presently, to his infinite relief, he caught sight of the gleam of the fire, more distant, however, than he had supposed it could possibly be.
And Annie herself, although all the time in Hector's thought, revealed herself only, after the custom of celestials, at the very moment of her disappearance; her message delivered, she went back to her duties at the table; and then first Hector woke to the knowledge that she had been at his door, and was there no more.
"Adams wants me to speak a piece on that great day. I told him I couldn't m' lip's cracked!" and Marty giggled. "But Sally Prentiss is going to recite 'A Psalm of Life, and Peke Ringgold is going to tell us all about 'Bozzar Bozzar is' as though we hadn't been made acquainted with him ever since Hector was a pup. And Hector's a big dog now!"
I'll never be a credit to anybody; and as for what I'm going to do go back to Greenville and loaf in Tim's pool-room, I suppose, and watch Hector's balloon." However, Hector's balloon seemed uninclined to soar, at the set-off though Hector didn't.
They sailed away from this dismal prophetess, and touched on the coast of Epirus, where Æneas found his cousin Helenus, son to old Priam, reigning over a little new Troy, and married to Andromache, Hector's wife, whom he had gained after Pyrrhus had been killed. Helenus was a prophet, and he gave Æneas much advice.
"Oh, well," said he, "that's a good sign, my dear; very good, very good. I've always thought and said that you were a good girl in fact, too good; you needed correcting." She did, indeed, have a good heart; for instead of taking Hector's bank-notes and turning him out of doors, she tried to comfort and console him.
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