You are certainly aware what a sad breach occurred then, and how long Hermon was restrained before he succeeded in turning his back upon trade." "My father meant so kindly toward him," Daphne protested.

"He was appointed guardian to you both.

You are rich, and therefore he aided in every possible way your taste for art; but Hermon did not inherit from his parents a single drachm, and so my father saw the most serious struggles awaiting him if he devoted himself to sculpture.

And, besides, he had destined his nephew to become his successor, the head of one of the largest commercial houses in the city." "And in doing so," Myrtilus responded, "he believed he had made the best provision for his happiness.

But there is something peculiar in art.
I know from your father himself how kind his intentions were when he withdrew his assistance from Hermon, and when he had escaped to the island of Rhodes, left him to make his own way during the first period of apprenticeship through which he passed there.