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XV. The time had passed when a Persian monarch could deride the loftiness of a Spartan's pretensions Xerxes received the communications with delight, and despatched Artabazus to succeed Megabates in Phrygia, and to concert with the Spartan upon the means whereby to execute their joint design . But while Pausanias was in the full flush of his dazzled and grasping hopes, his fall was at hand.
"In this hour, when the fair face of Artemis recalls the old legends of Endymion, is it not permitted to man to remember that before the iron age came the golden, before war reigned love?" "Tush," said Uliades. "Time enough to think of love when we have satisfied vengeance. Let us summon our friends, and hold council on the Spartan's insults."
My judgment may err, or my sensibilities may be 'too full of the milk of human kindness' to serve the stern exigencies of the crisis with a Spartan's callousness and a Roman's impenetrability; but for you to affirm that, because true to my own opinions, I must be false to my country, is to deny me that independence of thought to which my country, as a nation, owes its existence and its grandeur."
Quitting Thrasyllus, the Regent now joined a young Spartan who stood alone by the prow in a musing attitude. "Lysander, my friend, my only friend, my best-loved Lysander," said Pausanias, placing his hand on the Spartan's shoulder. "And why so sad?" "How many leagues are we from Sparta?" answered Lysander mournfully. "And canst thou sigh for the black broth, my friend?
And Cleonice, unable to shun the visits which her weak and covetous father, despite his promised favour to the suit of Antagoras, still encouraged; and feeling her honour, at least, if not her peace, was secured by that ascendancy which, with each successive interview between them, her character more and more asserted over the Spartan's higher nature, relinquished the tormenting levity of tone whereby she had once sought to elude his earnestness, or conceal her own sentiments.
At first the Athenian officers were displeased at the offer, not from terror, but from pride; and it seemed to them as if they were shifted, like helots, from post to post at the Spartan's pleasure.
By possessing himself of the secret, he possessed himself of the power of Pausanias; and that intelligence might perhaps have enabled him to frustrate the Spartan's treason in the hour of actual danger to Greece.
And they brought back the smiles when they explained that the Bridge of Sighs was so named because the Spartan's room was at the end of it. All together, they made a very satisfactory cure and when they left Fanny for the night, after having unpacked her suitcase for her, she was quite bright and contented. "What do you think of her?"
The Spartan's sure to say, 'a little too free, but correct on the whole, anyway," she thought, ruefully, as she folded up her paper and put her pen and ink away. Miss Hale raised her eyebrows in surprise as she handed in the examination. "You have finished very early," she said, coldly, and Betty's heart sank. "Don't you want to look over your paper?" "Jemima, no!"
"Get them out and tell us about the Art teacher; I'm going to go on hanging pictures." "Well, she's a duck, I told you that, and an old friend of Mrs. Baird; her first name is Janet. I was standing in the hall when she arrived and I carried her bag to her room. She has the one next to the Spartan's, poor soul!" "Well how do you know she's nice?" Polly insisted. "Because she's something like Mrs.
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