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THE TROJAN WOMEN
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Talthybius.
Is't not rare fortune that the King hath smiled
On such a maid?
Hecuba.
What of that other child
Ye reft from me but now?
Talthybius (speaking with some constraint).
Polyxena? Or what child meanest thou?
Hecuba.
The same. What man now hath her, or what doom?
Talthybius.
She rests apart, to watch Achilles' tomb.
Hecuba.
To watch a tomb? My daughter? What is this? . . .
Speak, Friend? What fashion of the laws of Greece?
Talthybius.
Count thy maid happy! She hath naught of ill
To fear . . .
Hecuba.
What meanest thou? She liveth still?
Talthybius.
I mean, she hath one toil that holds her free
From all toil else.
Hecuba.
What of Andromache,
Wife of mine iron-hearted Hector, where
Journeyeth she?
