When she sees that he will not give up Sappho,--that his smiling face, in which she adores the image of her great husband Cyrus, becomes clouded, I verily believe she would be ready to sanction his taking even a Scythian woman to wife, if it could restore him to cheerfulness.

Neither will Cambyses himself refuse his consent if his mother press the point at a right moment." "In that case every difficulty is set aside," cried Rhodopis joyfully.
"It is not the marriage itself, but the time that must follow, which causes me uneasiness," answered Croesus.
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. ?" "From him I fear nothing.

He has a pure heart, and has been so long proof against love, that now he has once yielded, he will love long and ardently." "What then do you fear ?" "You must remember that, though the charming wife of their favorite will be warmly received by all his friends of his own sex, there are thousands of idle women in the harems of the Persian nobles, who will endeavor, by every artifice and intrigue in their power, to injure the newly-risen star; and whose greatest joy it will be to ruin such an inexperienced child and make her unhappy." "You have a very bad opinion of the Persian women." "They are but women, and will naturally envy her, who has gained the husband they all desired either for themselves or for their daughters.