The wicked enchantress (whose name isCirce, the sister of King Aetes) dwells in the marble palace which you see yonder among the trees.

Out of the high heaven is she summoned, from mystic communion with her own perfection, from majestic labours in the Sistine Chapel of the Stars,--yea, she must put aside her gold-leaf and purples and leave unfinished the very panels of the throne of God,--thatCirce shall have her palace, and her worshippers their gilded sty.

It told of the adventures of Odysseus in Thesprotis after the killing of the Suitors, of his return to Ithaca, and his death at the hands of Telegonis, his son byCirce. The epic ended by disposing of the surviving personages in a double marriage, Telemachus weddingCirce, and Telegonus Penelope.

You are to play theCirce up to date, and I am to be beguiled.

For my own part, I must confess, so compassionate is my temper, I wish Polypheme had confined himself to his milk diet, and preserved his eye; nor could Ulysses be much more concerned than myself, when his companions were turned into swine byCirce, who showed, I think, afterwards, too much regard for man's flesh to be supposed capable of converting it into bacon.

Now bothCirce and Psyche peeped from her brightened eyes.

He and George had often laughed over it subsequently, and until a few weeks after George's marriage, when he also was caught in the littleCirce's toils, and had an understanding with her which his comrade certainly suspected, but preferred to ignore.

D'Artagnan was again in the presence of theCirce who had before surrounded him with her enchantments.

When Ulysses heard this he put the lid on the chest and made it fast with a bond thatCirce had taught him.

Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead, and hence Nature has her maligners, as if she wereCirce; and Alphonso of Castille fancied he could have given useful advice.

He felt a loathing for them such asCirce must have felt for her swine.

Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a maleCirce and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy.