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Ledscha had loosed it against him and his health, perhaps even his life, and he imagined that she was standing before him with the bridle and wheel, threatening him afresh.
"When the moon is over the island," Ledscha repeated after she had waited more than an hour. The time had not yet come; the expanse of water lay before her motionless, in hue a dull, leaden gray, and only the dimly illumined air and a glimmering radiance along the edges of the waves that washed the island showed that the moon was already brightening the night.
Ledscha's father, too, was on good terms with the pirates, and when Abus, a handsome fellow who commanded his father's second ship and had won a certain degree of renown by many a bold deed, sought the hand of his oldest daughter, he did not refuse him, and only imposed the condition that when he had gained riches enough and made Ledscha his wife, he would cease his piratical pursuits and, in partnership with him, take goods and slaves from Pontus to the Syrian and Egyptian harbours, and grain and textiles from the Nile to the coasts of the Black Sea.
While the morning star was still paling, the lad who after Hermon's landing had raced along the shore with the burning torch glided into the little pronaos of the Temple of Nemesis. Ledscha was still standing by the doorpost of the cella with uplifted hand, so deeply absorbed in fervent prayer that she did not perceive the approach of the messenger until he called her.
He vainly strove to understand the impossibility of this division of his own being, but the more eagerly he did so the greater became his bewilderment. Suddenly the scene changed; Ledscha had appeared. Bending over him, she lavished words of love; but when, in passionate excitement, he sprang from the couch to draw her toward him, she changed into the Nemesis to whose statue she had just prayed.
How tardily and sluggishly the cow-headed goddess who bore the silver orb between her horns rose to-night! how slowly the time passed, yet she did not move forward more certainly that the man whom Ledscha expected must arrive.
"The woman visited me unasked, and I let her leave me as faithful or as unfaithful to her husband as she came. If I used her as a model " "Gula, whom the sculptor transforms into a goddess," Ledscha interrupted, with a sneering laugh. "Into a fish-seller, if you wish to know it," cried Hermon indignantly. "I saw in the market a young woman selling shad.
There had been anxious hours when Hanno's father and brothers visited the Hydra to induce her captain to make money out of the captive sculptor, and either sell him at a high price or extort a large ransom from him; but Bias had overheard how resolutely Ledscha opposed these proposals, and represented to old Satabus of what priceless importance Myrtilus might become to them if either should be captured and imprisoned.
Probably she will take both hunting with her, for, though a kind, fair-minded woman, she loves the chase, and as both have finished their work, they probably will not be reluctant to go with Daphne." He stepped into the boat as he spoke, but Ledscha again detained him, asking impatiently: "And 'the work, as you call it?
When its full orb floated above the island Hermon, too, would appear, and the happiness which had been predicted to Ledscha would begin. Happiness? A bitter smile hovered around her delicately cut lips as she repeated the word.
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