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Or, more dreadful thought, what if she had some hold on his affections she had said that he had pursued her; or, more infamous still, there were some secret understanding between them, and that she Mrs. Barker was the dupe of them both! What was she doing in the hotel at such a moment? What was her story of going to Hymettus but a lie as transparent as her own?
This marble was not therefore fitted for sculpture; but it could be used for certain architectural purposes and for ornamentation. It used to be quarried extensively on Hymettus, the well-known mountain of Attica, celebrated for the quantity and excellence of its honey.
The Greek verses of his first pilgrimage, e.g. the night scene on the Gulf of Arta, many of the Albanian sketches, with much of the Siege of Corinth and the Giaour have been invariably commended for their vivid realism. Attention has been especially directed to the lines in the Corsair beginning But, lo! from high Hymettus to the plain, as being the veritable voice of one
The beautiful but barren Hymettus the whole coast of Attica, her hills and mountains, Pentelicus, Anchesmus, Philopappus, etc., etc. are in themselves poetical, and would be so if the name of Athens, of Athenians, and her very ruins, were swept from the earth.
Then she added, with nervous volubility, sitting down and tugging at her gloves, "You see, I just ran down from Marysville to take a look at my father's old house on my way to Hymettus. I hope I haven't disturbed you. Perhaps," she said, with sudden eagerness, "you were asleep when I came in!" "No," said Mrs. Horncastle, "I was not sleeping nor dreaming. I heard you come in."
This pretty rounded growth, with its short brown stem throwing out lateral branches which trail on the ground, flavours meat, and might be naturalised in Europe. From June till August it is covered with a profusion of white blossoms, making Las Canadas a Hymettus, an apiarian heaven. It extends as far as the second cone, but there it shrinks to a foot in height.
The sun had just risen above Hymettus, the Agora shops were closed, but the plaza itself and the lesches—the numerous little club houses about it—overran with gossipers. On the stone bench before one of these buzzed the select coterie that of wont assembled in Clearchus’s booth; only Polus the juror now and then nodded and snored.
We strolled about for a long time, took some photographs, admired the lovely panoramic view from the top over the town of Athens to Eleusis, Salamis, and Corinth on one side, and from Mount Pentelicus and Mount Hymettus to the Elysian Fields, till our eyes wandered round by the ancient harbours of Phalisum and Piræus; back again by the Street of Tombs to Athens, looking more dusty and more grey than ever as we gazed down on its grey-tiled roofs.
To sit down to one of Aunt Janet's meals, in ordinary health and appetite, and eat nothing but bread and water that would be penance with a vengeance! We felt WE could never do it. But the Story Girl did it. We admired and pitied her. But now I do not think that she either needed our pity or deserved our admiration. Her ascetic fare was really sweeter to her than honey of Hymettus.
T'other minute I was in Greece, gathering the bloom of Hymettus, but now I am landed in Flanders, smoked with tobacco, and half poisoned with garlic.
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