rowing a bush of olive, long of leaf, and most goodly of growth, within the inner court, and the stem as large as a pillar. Round about this I built the chamber, till I had finished it, with stones close set, and I roofed it over well and added thereto compacted doors fitting well. Next I sheared off all the light wood of the long-leaved olive, and rough-hewed the trunk upwards from the root, and smoothed it around with the adze, well and skilfully, and made straight the line thereto and so fashioned it into the bedpost, and I bored it all Menn Mesut Ozil Fotballdrakter with the auger. Beginning from this bedpost, I wrought at the bedstead till I had finished it, and made it fair with inlaid work of gold and of silver and of ivory. Then I made fast Menn Cristian Zapata Fotballdrakter therein a bright purple band of oxhide. Even so I declare to thee this Menn Sadio Mane Fotballdrakter token, and I Menn Ricardo Rodriguez Fotballdrakter know not, lady, if the bedstead be yet fast in his place, or if some man has cut away the Menn Aritz Aduriz Fotballdrakter stem of the olive tree, and set the bedstead otherwhere.’
So he spake, and at once her knees were loosened, and her heart melted within her, as she knew the sure tokens that Odysseus Menn Ruben Loftus-Cheek Fotballdrakter showed her. Then she fell a weeping, and ran straight toward him and cast her hands about his neck, and kissed his head and spake, saying:
‘Be not angry with me, Odysseus, for thou wert ever at other times the wisest of men. It is the gods that gave us sorrow, the gods who begrudged us that we should abide together and have joy of our youth, and come to the threshold of old age. So now be not wroth with me hereat Menn David Luiz Fotballdrakter nor full of indignation, because at the first, when I saw thee, I did not welcome thee straightway. For always my heart within my breast shuddered, for fear lest some man should come and deceive me with his words, for many they be that devise gainful schemes and evil. Nay even Argive Helen, daughter of Zeus, would not have lain with a stranger, and taken him for a lover, had she known that the warlike sons of the Achaeans would bring her home again to her own dear country. Howsoever, it was the god that set her upon this shameful |