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As to Varvara Pavlovna, the general's only daughter, she was but seventeen years old when she left the Institute in which she had been educated. The Spartan's legs trembled when Mikhalevich led him into the Korobines' not over-well furnished drawing-room, and introduced him to its occupants. But he overcame his timidity, and soon disappeared.
I hate these sleek and merry feast-givers; they are a perpetual insult to our solemn existence." There was a strange mixture of irony and passion in the Spartan's voice as he thus spoke, and Thrasyllus looked at him in grave surprise. "There is nothing to envy in the woman-like debaucheries of the Ionian," said he, after a pause.
The Spartan's face brightened visibly, and Croesus, attracted by this serious, earnest man, asked his name. "My name is Aristomachus." "That name seems known to me." "You were acquainted with many Hellenes, and my name is common among them." "Your dialect would bespeak you my opinion a Spartan." "I was one once." "And now no more?"
Even Aristides, seeking to remonstrate, was repulsed rudely. "I am not at leisure," said the Spartan, with a frown. Complaints of this treatment were despatched to Sparta, and in the mean while the confederates, especially the officers of Chios, Samos, and Lesbos, pressed Aristides to take on himself the general command, and protect them from the Spartan's insolence.
There was Connie on the driveway. Lois watched her pay the driver and pick up her suitcase. Then she went back to her seat. "She's here," she whispered to Angela and Polly in passing. Angela almost shouted with joy, but the Spartan's frown of displeasure at the disturbance at the back of the room made her bury her head in her desk. Just as the clock struck the half hour, Betty came in.
The Spartan's face brightened visibly, and Croesus, attracted by this serious, earnest man, asked his name. "My name is Aristomachus." "That name seems known to me." "You were acquainted with many Hellenes, and my name is common among them." "Your dialect would bespeak you my opinion a Spartan." "I was one once." "And now no more?"
"'Knowest thou not, said I, 'that if the Gods condemned me to die by thy hand, not only thou, but thy whole house, thy wife and thy children, would be sacrificed to my ghost?" "'The earth can hide the Spartan's bones as secretly as the Helot's, answered my strange foe. 'Begone, young and unfleshed in slaughter as you are; why make war upon me? My death can give you neither gold nor glory.
We cannot, then, wonder at the extreme barbarity with which the Spartans treated this miserable race; and we can even find something of excuse for a cruelty which became at last the instinct of self-preservation. Revolt and massacre were perpetually before a Spartan's eyes; and what man will be gentle and unsuspecting to those who wait only the moment to murder him?
But as he was thus conspicuous and solitary, and midway in the space left between the Laconian and Ionian galleys, suddenly two ships from the latter darted forth, passed through the centre of the Corinthian contingent, and steered with the force of all their rowers, right towards the Spartan's ship. "Surely," said Pausanias, "that is the Chian's vessel.
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