. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. and close to him. Then heleft the judgment seat and he went to the palace. III. THE GOLDEN FLEECE [EY brought Jason into a hall where ^Eson,his father, waited. Very strange did thisold and grave-looking man appear to when JEson spoke, Jason rememberedthe tone of his fathers voice and he claspedhim to him. And his father knew himeven without the sight of the ruby ringwhich Jason had upon his finger. Then the young man began to tell of the centaur and of his lifeupon the Mountain Pelion. As they were speaking togetherPelias ca
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. and close to him. Then heleft the judgment seat and he went to the palace. III. THE GOLDEN FLEECE [EY brought Jason into a hall where ^Eson,his father, waited. Very strange did thisold and grave-looking man appear to when JEson spoke, Jason rememberedthe tone of his fathers voice and he claspedhim to him. And his father knew himeven without the sight of the ruby ringwhich Jason had upon his finger. Then the young man began to tell of the centaur and of his lifeupon the Mountain Pelion. As they were speaking togetherPelias came to where they stood, Pelias in the purple robe of aking and with the crown upon his head. ^Eson tightly claspedJason as if he had become fearful for his son. Pelias smilinglytook the hand of the young man and the hand of his brother,and he bade them both welcome to his palace. Then, walking between them, the king brought the two intothe feasting hall. The youth who had known only the forest andthe mountainside had to wonder at the beauty and the magnifi-. 14 THE GOLDEN FLEECE cence of all he saw around him. On the walls were brightpictures; the tables were of polished wood, and they had vesselsof gold and dishes of silver set upon them; along the walls werevases of lovely shapes and colors, and everywhere there werebaskets heaped with roses white and red. The kings guests were already in the hall, young men andelders, and maidens went amongst them carrying roses which theystrung into wreaths for the guests to put upon their heads. Asoft-handed maiden gave Jason a wreath of roses and he put it onhis head as he sat down at the kings table. When he lookedat all the rich and lovely things in that hall, and when he saw theguests looking at him with friendly eyes, Jason felt that he wasindeed far away from the dim spaces of the mountain forest andfrom the darkness of the centaurs cave. Rich food and wine such as he had never dreamt of tastingwere brought to the tables. He ate and
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