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She was lovely in everything. And she was no longer the little Becky Bannister whom Dalton had wooed. She was Mademoiselle Midas, appraising her beauty in her lovely clothes, and wondering what Dalton would think if he could see her. Becky did not, after all, wear the pink gingham.
Midas bent down his head, without speaking; for he recognised the same figure which had appeared to him, the day before, in the treasure-room, and had bestowed on him this disastrous faculty of the Golden Touch.
He saw the marks of it all about him, the thing one called "good form," the undercurrent of strife for social honor, the corrugated brow of envy, the pomp and circumstance of spilled riches ah! here was where his shoe would pinch him the most. For Hermia Challoner was wealthy beyond the touch of Midas.
So he thought, and thought, and thought, and heaped up one golden mountain upon another, in his imagination, without being able to imagine them big enough. At last, a bright idea occurred to King Midas. It seemed really as bright as the glistening metal which he loved so much. Raising his head, he looked the lustrous stranger in the face.
In autumn, when golden leaves are falling everywhere and the grain is waving in the field, one may fancy King Midas is in our own land. Greek "O, grasshopper, grasshopper gray, Give me molasses and then hop away." That is what Bessie Allen said to the little creature she held between her thumb and fingers. Did you ever say that rhyme? I should not wonder if you had said it an hundred times.
Alexander resumes his march. The country surrenders. Incidents. Alexander's generosity. Omens. The eagle on the mast. Interpretations. Approach of winter. The newly married permitted to go home. A detachment of bridegrooms. Taurus. Passage through the sea. Hardships. The Meander. Gordium. Story of the Gordian knot. Midas. Gordius made king. Alexander cuts the knot. He resumes his march.
All I wanted was clearness, so difficult to obtain in poetry, while a little doubtful darkness would have been accounted sublime by my new Midas. But, although I wanted to please him, the cardinal was only a secondary consideration, and the handsome marchioness the principal object.
Archie put on his hat and walked out after them, while Madame Midas stood looking at Selina with a thoughtful expression of countenance. 'I don't know if I've done a right thing, Selina, she said, at length; 'but as they were starving I could hardly turn them away. 'Cast your bread on the waters and it shall come back after many days buttered, said Selina, giving her own version of the text.
Wise King Midas was so exalted by his good fortune that the palace seemed not sufficiently spacious to contain him. He therefore went downstairs, and smiled, on observing that the balustrade of the staircase became a bar of burnished gold, as his hand passed over it in his descent.
'Ah! she cried, making a step forward, 'you do not believe me, but I tell you it is true yes, I know now who the two men were following Madame Midas as she drove away: one was her husband, who wished to rob her, and the other was Pierre, who, acting upon your instructions, was to get the gold from Villiers should he succeed in getting it from Madame.
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