[The Emperor Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Emperor Complete CHAPTER VIII 13/15
It is like a daughter of Nereus following the line of the as the waves as they rise into crests and dip again into watery valleys.
She is like Selene and her mother in the shape of her head and the Greek cut of her face, but the elder sister is like the statue of Prometheus before it had a soul, and Arsinoe is like the Master's work after the celestial fire coursed through her veins." The artist had felt and thought all this out in a few seconds, but the girl found her speechless admirer's silence too long, and exclaimed impatiently: "You have not yet offered me any proper greeting.
What are you doing down there ?" "Look here," he replied, lifting the cloth from the portrait, which was a striking likeness. Arsinoe leaned far over the parapet of the balcony, shaded her eyes with her hand and was silent for more than a minute.
Then she suddenly cried out loudly and exclaiming: "Mother--it is my mother!" She flew into the room behind her. "Now she will call her father and destroy all poor Selene's comfort," thought Pollux, as he pushed the heavy marble bust on which his gypsum head was fixed, into its right place. "Well, let him come.
We are the masters here now, and Keraunus dare not touch the Emperor's property." He crossed his arms and stood gazing at the bust, muttering to himself: "Patchwork--miserable patchwork.
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