. Six and one abroad. ng to our boat we waited in the city untilnightfall for a view of the Acropolis by moonlight. From thecrest of Mars Hill we saw the western skies stained crimsonand orange by the dying sun and its last rays fell upon theruins like the kiss of a parent upon the forehead of a childthat is dead. And then the outlines grew dim and dimmer inthe gloaming, and from pale to livid against the sky, until itlooked like the great rich sarcophagus of a king. But justwhen Night was in the act of throwing her mantle upon theruin as she had done for so many centuries, the moon rose andth
. Six and one abroad. ng to our boat we waited in the city untilnightfall for a view of the Acropolis by moonlight. From thecrest of Mars Hill we saw the western skies stained crimsonand orange by the dying sun and its last rays fell upon theruins like the kiss of a parent upon the forehead of a childthat is dead. And then the outlines grew dim and dimmer inthe gloaming, and from pale to livid against the sky, until itlooked like the great rich sarcophagus of a king. But justwhen Night was in the act of throwing her mantle upon theruin as she had done for so many centuries, the moon rose andthrew her face full and fair upon the scene, and in the trackof the long shadows the Night crouched and hid herself. Alongthe ponderous beams a current of silver ran and a flood ofsplendor poured upon the stately pillars and the marble grand and rather gloomy scene it was, productive of queersensations. We almost expected to see the old heroes of ancientGreece materialize in the moonlight. 60 Six and One Abroad. MY PASSPORT INTO TURKEY. CHAPTER VII. Some Dis-stink-tive Features of Constantinople. The Aegean Sea is dotted with islands so thickly on the map,that they appear to be only stepping stones between Europeand Asia. But from the deck of a steamer in their midst theperspective widens, and in the absence of continents from thephysical vision, they are more like jewels in the azure broochof the Mediterranean—rising in the shadowy blue, passing inthe golden sunlight and fading in the dreamy haze. And eachsingle pearl in the cluster sparkles with some charming legendor lustrous historic fact—Melos, where the Venus de Milo wasfound; Paros with its quarries of the worlds best marble;Chios, one of the seven birthplaces of Homer; Demos, the cradleof Apollo; Patmos, where the Apostle John saw the vision ofthe Apocalypse and wrote his Revelation, and others. Threading these gems of the sea the Arabic with unerringinstinct wound her sinuous course from the shores of
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