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We had promised her a liberal perquisite in the event of our success, but she must not give other cyclists our idea by mentioning it to a soul. It was about midnight when we cycled through Kingston to Surbiton, having trundled our machines across Ham Fields, mournful in the mist as those by Acheron, and so over Teddington Bridge.
In this it differs from Tartary in the other world, which, according to old writers, has five rivers viz. Acheron, Phlegeton, Cocytus, Styx and Lethe. In this island I found the redstart, described in Wilson's Ornithology of the United States.
Claiming descent from Pyhrrus, son of Achilles, and being a son of Æacides, he was in the direct line the Kings of Epirus. He was also cousin of an Alexander, who, in the year 332, had crossed over from Epirus to help the Tarentines against the Lucanians, had formed an alliance with the Romans, and had finally been killed by a Lucanian on the banks of the Acheron, in 326.
It gets its name from the river Acheron, which flows through Thesprotis and falls into the lake. There also the river Thyamis flows, forming the boundary between Thesprotis and Kestrine; and between these rivers rises the point of Chimerium. In this part of the continent the Corinthians now came to anchor, and formed an encampment.
The banks of Acheron can not be more wildly funèbre, and it was companionable to hear Colin's voice mimicking out of the darkness: "In this country me do rough-a work. In Pal-aer-mo do polit-a work!" "Poor chap!" I said, after a pause, thinking of our friend from Pal-aer-mo. "Do you know Hafiz, Colin?" I continued. "There is an ode of his that came back to me as our poor Italian was talking.
'Tis death Thou, Semele, hast gained! SEMELE. Ha! Loves Zeus thus? ZEUS. All heaven I would have given, had I only Loved thee but less! SEMELE. Oh, Jupiter! Now I mark thine exultation, Juno! Accursed jealousy! This rose must die! Too fair alas! too sweet for Acheron! SEMELE. Methinks thou'rt niggard of thy majesty! ZEUS. Accursed be my majesty, that now Has blinded thee!
"Such is my purpose," said the Emperor; "and in evidence that I mean not again to pass over a sentence of this kind with a seeming execution only, as in the case of Ursel, this ungrateful traitor of ours shall be led from the top of the staircase, or ladder of Acheron, as it is called, through the large chamber named the Hall of Judgment, at the upper end of which are arranged the apparatus for execution, by which I swear"
During the morning the Governor returned in the Acheron to Fort de France. In the afternoon the Acheron came back. Wrote a note to the latter complaining of the continued violation of the neutrality of the port by the enemy's ship. Engineer not ready, so we are obliged to lie over another day. C.S. Steamer Sumter, St Pierre, Nov. 21st, 1861.
This Chinese door, like that of Acheron, refused to surrender its prey. Time was passing. I had successively adopted every attitude of feverish expectation; I had exhausted every pose of a museum of statues, and saw that my suspicious blockade of the pavement alarmed the store-keepers.
"Pity me, master, pity me and let me go!" cried the man, still striving vainly to escape. "Surely they are close behind me " "Who are behind you?" asked Sergius, sternly. "Speak and lie not, food for Acheron!" "They who are burning the farm." Sergius' eyes glittered, and he leaned forward to catch the words, as he began to gather their import.
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