. One of Cleopatra's nights, and other fantastic romances . King Candaules. AULES CHAPTER I Five hundred years before the Trojanwar, and seventeen hundred and fifteenyears before our own era, there was a grandfestival at Sardes. King Candaules wasgoing to marry. The people were affectedwith that sort of pleasurable interest andaimless emotion wherewith any royal eventinspires the masses, even though it in nowise concerns them, and transpires in supe-rior spheres of life which they can neverhope to reach. As soon as Phcebus-Apollo, standing inhis quadriga, had gilded to saffron the sum-mits of
. One of Cleopatra's nights, and other fantastic romances . King Candaules. AULES CHAPTER I Five hundred years before the Trojanwar, and seventeen hundred and fifteenyears before our own era, there was a grandfestival at Sardes. King Candaules wasgoing to marry. The people were affectedwith that sort of pleasurable interest andaimless emotion wherewith any royal eventinspires the masses, even though it in nowise concerns them, and transpires in supe-rior spheres of life which they can neverhope to reach. As soon as Phcebus-Apollo, standing inhis quadriga, had gilded to saffron the sum-mits of fertile Mount Tmolus with his rays,the good people of Sardes were all astir, i8 274 KING CANDAULES going and coming, mounting or descendingthe marble stairways leading from the cityto the waters of the Pactolus, that opulentriver whose sands Midas filled with tinysparks of gold when he bathed in its would have supposed that each one ofthese good citizens was himself about tomarry, so solemn and important was thedemeanor of all. Men were gathering in groups in
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