[Footnote: A lovely blue flower, something like a gentian.] and the wild daphne, we dipped again slightly to the point where the road to St. Jean de Luz forks to the right.

I will bring weapons, and I will join you as soon as possible after I have made sure that the temple priests, and all Daphne, are positive about your death.

Such thoughts filled his mind until he reached the lonely cross-road, where the narrower, tree-lined road to Daphne met the great main highway leading northward over the mountains.

Presently he saw Norbanus riding the horse that he himself had ridden that afternoon from Antioch to Daphne, followed on a mule by Cadmus, the slave who had brought the letter which had pulled the trigger that set the catapults of destiny in motion.

That is, where the crossroad leads to Daphne.

A little before midnight, in Daphne, near one of those booths where the caterers prepare hot meals, a man strode up to where some slaves were seated around a fire.

And besides, you can't persuade me that a man who had been scourged, and crucified, if only for one day, could walk into Daphne two or three nights afterward and carry on a conversation.

Why should he visit Daphne?

And they say he undoubtedly went to Daphne to return thanks at the temple threshold.

I sent a lictor and a dozen men to Norbanus' house, but he is missing and has not been seen, although it is known, and you admit, that he dined with you last night at Daphne.

"I am to inquire into the suitability of Antioch or Daphne as the site of the Olympic games that the emperor proposed to preside over in person.

If he could walk to Daphne three nights later, he had not been crucified many hours.

The powre thereof, which ofte in me I find, Let it likewise your gentle brest inspire With sweet infusion, and put you in mind Of that proud mayd whom now those leaves attyre: Proud Daphne, scorning Phrebus lovely** fyre, On the Thessalian shore from him did flie; For which the gods, in theyr revengefull yre, Did her transforme into a laurell-tree.

The modest virgin Daphne, who succeeded in escaping the violence of his passion, was transformed into a laurel, which is ever green and pure.

" In Aubrey's posthumous work on Surrey, published in 1718, the northern part of the hill is described as thickly covered with yew-trees, and the southern part with "thick boscages of box-trees," which "yielded a convenient privacy for lovers, who frequently meet here, so that it is an English Daphne."

BROWNING, DAPHNE DU MAURIER.

Frenchman's Creek, by Daphne du Maurier.

Daphne du Maurier Browning (A); 30Dec68; R451892-451893.

Frenchman's Creek, by Daphne du Maurier.

Daphne du Maurier Browning (A); 3Feb69; R455177.

BROWNING, DAPHNE DU MAURIER.

The king's general, by Daphne Du Maurier

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Angela du Maurier (A); 27Apr73; R551611. DU MAURIER, DAPHNE. SEE BROWNING, DAPHNE DU MAURIER.

Angela du Maurier (A); 27Apr73; R551611. DU MAURIER, DAPHNE. SEE BROWNING, DAPHNE DU MAURIER.