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    The Ruinous Face
    The Ruinous Face
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    The Ruinous Face

    By Maurice Hewlett

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: The Ruinous Face

      Author: Maurice Hewlett

      Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21885]

      Language: English

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      HELEN AND EUTYCHES

      THE

      RUINOUS FACE

      BY

      MAURICE HEWLETT

      ILLUSTRATED

      HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      MCMIX

      Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.

      All rights reserved.

      Published October, 1909.

      "Hence there is in Rhodes a sanctuary

      of Helen of the Tree."

      —Pausanias, iii., 19, 9.

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Helen and Eutyches Frontispiece

      The Abduction of Helen Facing p. 8

      From the painting by Rudolph von Deutsch.

      Helen of Troy " 20

      From the painting by Sir Frederick Leighton.

      Paris and Helen " 30

      From the painting by Jacques Louis David in the Louvre.

      THE RUINOUS FACE

      When the siege of Troy had been ten years doing, and most of the chieftains were dead, both of those afield and those who held the walls; and some had departed in their ships, and all who remained were leaden-hearted; there was one who felt the rage of war insatiate in his bowels: Menelaus, yellow-haired King of the Argives. He, indeed, rested not day or night, but knew the fever fretting at his members, and the burning in his heart. And when he scanned the windy plain about the city, and the desolation of it; and when he saw the huts of the Achæans, and the furrows where the chariots ploughed along the lines, and the charred places of camp-fires, smoke-blackened trees, and puddled waters of Scamander, and corn-lands and pastures which for ten years had known neither plough nor deep-breathed cattle, nor querulous sheep; even then in the heart of Menelaus was no pity for Dardan nor Greek, but only for himself and what he had lost—white-bosomed Helen, darling of Gods and men, and golden treasure of the house.

      The vision of her glowing face and veiled eyes came to him in the night-season to make him mad, and in dreams he saw her, as once and many times he had seen her, lie supine. There as she lay in his dream, all white and gold, thinner than the mist-wreath upon a mountain, he would cry aloud for his loss, and throw his arms out over the empty bed, and feel his eye-sockets smart for lack of tears; for tears came not to him, but his fever made his skin quite dry, and so were his eyes dry. Therefore, when the chiefs of the Achæans in Council, seeing how their strength was wearing down like a snowbank under the sun, looked

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