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I was thinking back to my own time when I was just husband-high, though that wasn't so little, Lysander John being a scant six foot three and our wedding tour to the Centennial and the trip to Niagara Falls just soaking in old memories that bless and bind that this lady singer was calling up well, you could have had anything from me right then when she kissed that cross a second time, just pouring her torn heart out.
And he wrote to his friends in Asia, bidding them request to have Agesilaus appointed to command them in the war against the barbarians; which they were persuaded to, and sent ambassadors to Lacedaemon to entreat it. And this would seem to be a second favor done Agesilaus by Lysander, not inferior to his first in obtaining him the kingdom.
Periclides half rose as if to take with more respect what had come from the hand of the son of Hercules. "Withdraw, Lysander," he said, "and wait without while we deliberate on the contents herein." Lysander obeyed, and returned to the outer chamber. Here he was instantly surrounded by eager, though not noisy groups.
But the faces of the Ephors, rigid and composed, revealed nothing to guide the sagacity of Lysander, as he re-entered the chamber. He himself, by a strong effort, had recovered the disturbance into which the words of the boy had thrown his mind, and he stood before the Ephors intent upon the object of defending the name, and fulfilling the commands of his chief.
This disposition, so fatal to Vernon, his daughter inherited. With a dark, bold, and passionate genius, which in a man would have led to the highest enterprises, she linked the feminine love of secrecy and scheming. To borrow again from Plutarch and Lysander, "When the skin of the lion fell short, she was quite of opinion that it should be eked out with the fox's." Plutarch's Life of Lysander.
The boat made to a vessel close at hand a vessel builded in Cyprus, manned by Bithynians; its sails were all up, but it bore no flag. Scarcely had Lysander climbed the deck than it heaved to and fro, swaying as the anchor was drawn up, then, righting itself, sprang forward, like a hound unleashed for the chase.
The ingenuity of Lysander, assisted probably by the popular qualities of Agesilaus, contrived to overcome this objection by interpreting a lame reign to mean not any bodily defect in the king, but the reign of one who was not a genuine descendant of Hercules.
Had Sparta been wise, with this vast accession of power gained by the victories of Lysander, she would have ruled moderately, and reorganized the Grecian world on sound principles, and restored a Panhellenic stability and harmony.
You are giving yourself useless trouble, Jason, and I earnestly beg you not to disturb me any longer now, for a dark spot is already appearing on the roast. Quick, Chloris lift the spit from the fire!" "I should like to bid Lysander good-morning." "He is tired, and wants to see no one. The servants have vexed him." "Then I'll stay awhile in the garden." "To try your luck with Xanthe?
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