What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods.

In the same way, while working, he obstinately rejected my counsel and my help, though the Muse grants me some things which he unfortunately lacks.

Great as his talent is, firmly as I believe that he will yet succeed some day in creating something grand, nay, perhaps something mighty, the unbelieving disciple of Straton lacks the power of comprehending the august dignity, the superhuman majesty of the divine nature, and he does not succeed in representing the bewitching charm of woman, because he hates it as the bull hates a red rag.

Only once hitherto has he been successful, and that was with your bust." Daphne's cheeks suddenly flamed with a burning flush, and feeling it she raised her feather fan to her eyes, and with forced indifference murmured: "We were good friends from our earliest childhood.

And, besides, how small is the charm with which the artist who chooses me for a model has to deal!" "It is rather an unusually fascinating one," Myrtilus asserted resolutely.