''I cannot go with you. My father is old, and
has nobody but myself to love him. Hard as
you think his heart is, it would break to lose
me. At first, King Minos will be angry; but
he will soon forgive his only child; and, by
and by, he will rejoice, I know, that no more
youths and maidens must come from Athens
to be devoured by The Minotaur I have saved
you, Theseus, as much for my father's sake as
for your own. Farewell! Heaven bless you!"

All vLis was so true, and so maiden-like, and
was spoken with so sweet a dignity, that The-
seus womd have blushed to urge her any longer.
Nothing reif tiined for him, therefore, but to bid
Ariadne an ifFectionate farewell, and to go on
board the vesrel, and set sail.

In a few inoments the white foam was boil-
ing up before their prow, as Prince Theseus
and his companions sailed out of the harbor,
with a whistling breeze behind them. Talus,
the brazen giant, on his never-ceasing sentinel's
march, happened to be approaching that part
of the coast; and they saw him, by the glimmer-
ing of the moonbeams on his polished surface,
while he was yet a great way cfT. As the

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