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Assured by one glance that Timmins's courage still hung at the point to which she had screwed it the preceding evening, Janet drooped again to her work. To his remark that the potatoes were looking fine, however, the elder made no response unless a gout of tobacco smoke could be so counted. With eyes screwed up and mouth drawn down, he gazed off into space a Highland sphinx, a Gaelic Rhadamanthus.
Round the fountain is a grove of the Cretan Storax-trees, which the people of Haliartus point to as a proof of Rhadamanthus having lived there. They also show his tomb, which they call Alea. The sepulchre of Alkmena too is close by: for the story goes that she married Rhadamanthus here after the death of Amphitryon.
The personal sympathy which Mr Arnold evidently had with Gray neither makes nor mars here; all is purely critical, purely literary. And yet higher praise has never been given by any save the mere superlative-sloppers of the lower press, nor juster criticism meted out by the veriest critical Rhadamanthus.
But Rhadamanthus observing an ingenuous modesty in her countenance and behaviour, bid them both let her loose, and set her aside for a re-examination when he was more at leisure. An old woman, of a proud and sour look, presented herself next at the bar, and being asked what she had been doing?
"I can't help it, though," said he. "Do you really mean that I'm not to go in?" "I do, indeed," said Rhadamanthus. Dolly rose. She leant her arms on the raised ledge which ran along the table, and she leant her chin on her hands. "Really?" she said. "Really," said he, looking the other way. A sudden change came over Dolly's face.
Both laws and religion are strengthened by a union with the stage, where virtue and vice, joy and sorrow, are thoroughly displayed in a truthful and popular way; where a variety of providential problems are solved; where all secrets are unmasked, all artifice ends, and truth alone is the judge, as incorruptible as Rhadamanthus. Where the influence of civil laws ends that of the stage begins.
And the monument also of Alcmena is hard by; for there, as they say, she was buried, having married Rhadamanthus after Amphitryon's death.
Homer's heaven was an elysium which he describes as a plain at the end of the earth or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and the sun never goes down, and Rhadamanthus, the justest of men, rules.
"Isn't it rather too late for that sort of thing?" I asked. "You seem to forget that I have been here for the last quarter of an hour." "I didn't know she was going to do it," he protested. "Oh, of course," said I, "that will be your story. Mine, however, I shall tell in my own way." Rhadamanthus blushed again. Evidently he felt that he was in a delicate position.
Rhadamanthus, who knew the value of the old lady smiled upon her in such a manner, that the keeper of Elysium, who knew his office, reached out his hand to her. He no sooner touched her but her wrinkles vanished, her eyes sparkled, her cheeks glowed with blushes, and she appeared in full bloom and beauty.
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