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Then came the consideration that only two of the buccaneer ships were seaworthy and these could not accommodate the whole force, particularly being at the moment indifferently victualled for a long voyage. The crews of the Lachesis and Atropos and with them their captains, Wolverstone and Yberville, renounced the intention. After all, there would be a deal of treasure still hidden in Cartagena.
All business is at a standstill: Ixion rests upon his wheel; old Sisyphus sits down on his mountain, and his stone has fallen with a terrible plash into Acheron. In short, unless we are energetic, we are on the eve of a revolution. 'His purpose? 'He seeks yourself and her Majesty, added Lachesis, with a sneer. 'Immediately announce that we will receive him.
I would fain have ignored Lachesis altogether, but she made me painfully conscious of her presence, especially during the finals when, it seemed to me, she was unnecessarily diligent in her vocation. I could have dispensed with much of her torsion with great equanimity. I suppose that now I am trying to square accounts with her by playing this joke on her sister.
"Though we live in indolent Ionia, we still believe Hesiod's maxim, that industry is the guardian of virtue," rejoined Anaxagoras. "Philothea plies her distaff as busily as Lachesis spinning the thread of mortal life."
Even now the Homoeopathists have been introducing the venom of serpents, under the learned title of Lachesis, and outraging human nature with infusions of the pediculus capitis; that is, of course, as we understand their dilutions, the names of these things; for if a fine-tooth-comb insect were drowned in Lake Superior, we cannot agree with them in thinking that every drop of its waters would be impregnated with all the pedicular virtues they so highly value.
Busily and silently Clotho spun; and the golden thread, thin as a spider's web, yet beautiful as a sunbeam, grew longer and more golden between her skilful fingers. Then Lachesis cried out, 'It is finished! But Atropos hid her shears beneath her mantle, and said, 'Not so. Behold, there is a brand burning upon the hearth.
Then, by the memory of these, by all the higher and ineffable joys to which these lead, King of Hades, spare me, oh! spare me, Eurydice! Proserpine threw her arms round the neck of her husband, and, hiding her face in his breast, wept. 'Rash mortal, you demand that which is not in the power of Pluto to concede, said Lachesis.
'I do not understand this riddle of Destiny, continued the young Queen. 'If you, Parcæ, have predestined that a man should commit a crime, it appears to me very unjust that you should afterwards call upon the Furies to punish him for its commission. 'But man is a free agent, observed Lachesis, in as mild a tone as she could command. 'Then what becomes of Destiny? replied Proserpine.
'Racks and flames! squeaked Megæra. 'It is impossible. 'Eternal torture! moaned Alecto. ''Tis a lie. 'Not Jupiter himself should convince us! the Furies joined in infernal chorus. ''Tis nevertheless true,'calmly observed the beautiful Clotho. 'You will soon have the honour of being presented to her, added the serene Lachesis.
He performed a treason or a court bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress and left her, he betrayed his benefactor and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always and having no more remorse than Clotno when she weaves the thread, on Lachesis when she cuts it.
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