. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. tood on their hinder feet and fawned on mastiffs on their master when be comesFrom banqueting, and brings them food. So fawnedThe strong-clawed wolves and lions on my fear my men beheld those beasts of went, and standing in the porticoOf the bright-haired divinity, they heardHer sweet voice singing, as within she threwThe shuttle through the wide, immortal webSuch as is wove by the goddesses. Aloud they called, and forth she came And threw at once the shining doors apart And bade my comrades enter. She led them
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. tood on their hinder feet and fawned on mastiffs on their master when be comesFrom banqueting, and brings them food. So fawnedThe strong-clawed wolves and lions on my fear my men beheld those beasts of went, and standing in the porticoOf the bright-haired divinity, they heardHer sweet voice singing, as within she threwThe shuttle through the wide, immortal webSuch as is wove by the goddesses. Aloud they called, and forth she came And threw at once the shining doors apart And bade my comrades enter. She led them in and seated them on thrones. Then mingling for them Pramnian wine with cheese. Meal and fresh honey, and infusing drugs Into the mixture, drugs which made them lose The memory of their home, she handed them The beverage, and they drank. Then instantly She touched them with a wand and shut them up In styes, transformed to swine in head and voice. Bristles and shape, though still the human mind Remained in them. Homers Odv^sey {Bryants Translatior,).. CLAEA 235 CLARINDA I nand, but destined by her mother for acloister. She loves Ferdinand, but re-pulses him from shyness and modesty,quits home and takes refuge in St. Cather-ines Convent. Ferdinand discovers herretreat, and after a few necessary blundersthey are married.—Sheridan, The Duenna(1773). Clara {Donna), the troth-plight wife ofOctavio. Her afQanced husband, havingkilled Don Felix in a duel, was obliged tolie perdu for a time, and Clara, assumingher brothers clothes and name, went insearch of him. Both came to Salamanca,both set up at the Eagle, both hired thesame servant, Lazarillo, and ere long theymet, recognized each other, and becameman and wife.—Jephson, Two Strings toyour Bow (1792). Clara [Douglas], a lovely girl of artlessmind, feeling heart, great modesty, andwell accompUshed. She loved AlfredEvelyn, but refused to marry him becausethey were both too poor to support ahouse. Evelyn was left an immense for-t
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