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Hyacinthus she almost never saw. Once in a great while she met him on the street, and he bowed, raising his hat silently. He never made the slightest attempt at explanation. One night, after supper, Sarah and her mother sat on the front door-step, and by and by the old grandmother came across the fields, and Mrs. Wilford Biggs across the street, and Mr. John Mangam from his own house farther down.
Presently the group on the Lynn door-step began to talk about him, leading up to the subject from the fragrance of the lilies. "Them lilies is so sweet they are sickish," said the old grandmother. "Yes, they be dreadful sickish," said Mrs. Lynn. Mrs. Wilford Biggs and Mr. Mangam, as usual, said nothing. "Hyacinthus is home, I see," said Mrs. Lynn.
Of these, again, certain tales are more successfully adapted to children than others. Among the best for telling are: Arachne Pandora Midas Apollo and Daphne Apollo and Hyacinthus Narcissus Latona and the Rustics Proserpine It soon becomes easy to pick out from a collection such stories as can be well told; but at no time is it easy to find a sufficient number of such stories.
Hyacinthus Burke, I replied, 'who is a homo-factus ad unguem. Mr. Burke, Bryan, I proceeded, 'is a gentleman in the hem true sense of that word. He is generous, candid, faithful, and honest; and in association wid all his other excellent qualities, he is celebrated, among the select few who know him best, for an extraordinary attachment to truth. Now, if that wasn't misrepresentation, Mr.
The flower bears the name of Hyacinthus, and with every returning spring revives the memory of his fate.
She remembered just bow Hyacinthus looked when he spoke to her; there had been something almost childlike in his face. She could not believe, and yet in the face of all this evidence! If there was a woman living in the house with him, why had he kept it secret? Suddenly it occurred to her that she could go over in the garden and see for herself. It was a bright moonlight night and not yet late.
These more tragic incidents of village life are, however, relieved at proper intervals by some of lighter complexion. There is the gentleman's gardener who has his successive children christened by the Latin names of his plants, Lonicera, Hyacinthus and Senecio.
The modest virgin Daphne, who succeeded in escaping the violence of his passion, was transformed into a laurel, which is ever green and pure. And the sweet youth Hyacinthus, beloved of Apollo, being accidentally killed by a quoit which the god of day was throwing, that divinity, in his grief, caused those sweet flowers which bear his name to spring from his blood, where it fell upon the ground.
The ephors heard the remonstrance, but from day to day delayed an answer. The Spartans, according to Herodotus, were engaged in celebrating the solemnities in honour of Hyacinthus and Apollo; and this ceremonial might have sufficed as a plausible cause for procrastination, according to all the usages and formalities of Spartan manners.
There was silence. "Do you like it?" she said suddenly to me. "Yes. I think the idea is unconventional: but on that account you will probably be rejected." "I must risk it. Hyacinthus is to be in white, and must look radiantly, gloriously happy." "I say, do you want me to look radiantly, gloriously happy-because that will be rather difficult just now." "As far as you can.
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