Some extraordinary change seemed to have come over his daughter.

Something shone in her eyes that he had never observed before, and that gave her childlike features an importance and significance that almost startled him.

While she was making the porridge, Keraunus, with the slave's help, had taken the children up and dressed them; now they were all sitting at breakfast; Helios among them fresh and blooming.

Now, while Arsinoe told her father all about Selene, and the nursing she was having at dame Hannah's hands, Keraunus kept his eyes fixed on her, and when she noticed this and asked impatiently what there was peculiar in her appearance to-day, he shook his head and answered: "What strange things are girls! A great honor has been done you.

You are to represent the bride of Alexander, and pride and delight have changed you wonder fully in a single night--but I think to your disadvantage." "Folly," said Arsinoe reddening, and stretching herself with fatigue she threw herself back on a couch.