Perhaps, too, it will wake him, and if not the people shall carry him to his own rooms." "Disgraceful, disgraceful!" sighed the girl.
"Not at all; the high-priest of Serapis even is sometimes unwell.

Only let me see to it." "It will excite him afresh if he sees you.

He is so angry with you--so very angry." "Omnipotent Zeus, what harm have I done you, fat father! The gods forgive the sins of the wise, and a man will not forgive the fault committed by a stupid lad in a moment of imprudence." "You mocked at him." "I set a clay head that was like him on the shoulders of the fat Silenus near the gate, that had lost its own head.

It was my first piece of independent work." "But you did it to vex my father." "Certainly not, Selene; I was delighted with the joke and nothing more." "But you knew how touchy he is." "And does a wild boy of fifteen ever reflect on the consequences of his audacity?
If he had but given me a thrashing his annoyance would have discharged itself like thunder and lightning, and the air would have been clear again.

But, as it was, he cut the face off the work with a knife, and deliberately trod the pieces under foot as they lay on the ground.