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Essays in Portraiture (2)

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POLYSTRATUS Don’t keep evoking fancies of miraculous loveliness, Lycinus, but tell me who the woman is.

LYCINUS Why, do you suppose that I am exaggerating? No, I am afraid that when you have seen her you will take me to be a poor hand at turning compliments, so far superior will she prove to be. Anyhow, I can’t say who she is, but she received mich attention, kept splendid state in every way, had a number of eunuchs and a great many maids, and, in general, the thing seemed to be on a greater scale than accords with private station.

POLYSTRATUS You didn’t learn even the name they gave her?

LYCINUS No; only that she comes from Ionia, for one of the onlookers glanced at his neighbour after she had passed and said: “Well, that is what Smiyrna’s beauties are like, and it is no wonder that the fairest

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of Ionian cities has produced the fairest of women!” It seemed to me that the speaker himself was of Smyrna because he was so set up over her.

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