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Story I. - Perseus | Charles Kingsley | |
Part IV - How Perseus Came To The Aethiops |
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Then he unveiled the Gorgon's head, and said, 'This has delivered my bride from one wild beast: it shall deliver her from many.' And as he spoke Phineus and all his men-at-arms stopped short, and stiffened each man as he stood; and before Perseus had drawn the goat-skin over the face again, they were all turned into stone. Then Persons bade the people bring levers and roll them out; and what was done with them after that I cannot tell. So they made a great wedding-feast, which lasted seven whole days, and who so happy as Perseus and Andromeda? But on the eighth night Perseus dreamed a dream; and he saw standing beside him Pallas Athene, as he had seen her in Seriphos, seven long years before; and she stood and called him by name, and said - |
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