By the light of the full moon to-night, the happiness which has been predicted to me must begin.

After it, the orb between the horns of Astarte will become smaller; but when it fulls and wanes again, if you keep your promise and return, then, though they may curse and condemn me, I will come to your studio and grant what you ask.

But which of the goddesses do you intend to model from me as a companion statue to the Demeter ?" "This time it can not be one of the immortelles," he answered hesitatingly, "but a famous woman, an artist who succeeded in a competition in vanquishing even the august Athene." "So it is no goddess ?" Ledscha asked in a disappointed tone.
"No, child, but the most skilful woman who ever plied the weaver's shuttle." "And her name ?" "Arachne." The young girl started, exclaiming contemptuously: "Arachne?
That is--that is what you Greeks call the most repulsive of creatures--the spider." "The most skilful of all creatures, that taught man the noble art of weaving," he eagerly retorted.
Here he was interrupted; his friend Myrtilus put his fair head into the room, exclaiming: "Pardon me if I interrupt you--but we shall not see each other again for some time.

I have important business in the city, and may be detained a long while.

Yet before I go I must perform the commission Daphne gave me for you.