all good companionship, as this poor monster

Was Theseus afraid? By no means, my deal
auditors. What! a hero like Theseus afraid!
Not had the Minotaur had twenty bull heads
instead of one. Bold as he was, however, I
rather fancy that it strengthened his valiant
heart, just at this crisis, to feel a tremulous
twitch at the silken cord, which he was still hold-
ing in his left hand. It was as if Ariadne were
giving him all her might and courage; and,
much as he already had, and little as she had
to give, it made his own seem twice as much.
And to confess the honest truth, he needed the
whole; for now the Minotaur, turning suddenly
about, caught sight of Theseus, and instantly
lowered his horribly sharp horns, exactly as a
mad bull does when he means to rush against
an enemy. At the same time, he belched forth
a tremendous roar, in which there was some-
thing like the words of human language, but
all disjointed and shaken to pieces by passing
through the gullet of a miserably enraged brute.

Theseus could only guess what the creature
intended to say, and that rather by his gestures

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