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In view of this eventuality he had brought with him the only two letters he had ever received from Paulita, two scraps of paper, whereon were merely a few hurriedly written lines with various blots, but in an even handwriting, things that did not prevent the enamored youth from preserving them with more solicitude than if they had been the autographs of Sappho and the Muse Polyhymnia.
It has ever been so, my friend, and will ever remain so: Weakness has rules for itself, vigor is crowned with success. If thou canst not give pleasure to all by thy deeds and thy knowledge, Give it then, unto the few; many to please is but vain. Let the creative art breathe life, and the bard furnish spirit; But the soul is expressed by Polyhymnia alone.
"This suits me!" said Cap'n Sproul, stubbornly. The next moment he and his Portuguese were yanked over the side of the boat into the life-craft a dozen sturdy chaps assisting the transfer. "Let the peapod go afloat," directed the gruff officer. "It's off the Polyhymnia name on the stern-sheets evidence enough notice, men!" "I'm not off the Polyhymnia," protested Cap'n Sproul, indignantly.
It is a yearly attention from an unhappy creditor." "Debtor, you mean." "I mean what I say a creditor." He lifted the lamp. The shadows shifted and ran along the walls like huge spiders, the crossed swords flashed, the Venus of Milo threw us a lofty glance, Polyhymnia stood forth pensive and sank back into shadow. At the door I took the draped lay figure in my arms.
Clad in a long cambric robe, which defined the outlines of her body, molded on that of the Polyhymnia of antiquity, her pale face gently inclined upon her brother's shoulder, her long golden hair floating around her snowy shoulders, her arm thrown around her mother's neck, its rose-tinted alabaster hand drooping upon the red shawl in which Madame de Montrevel had wrapped herself; such was Roland's sister as she appeared to Sir John.
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