Psyche thought death alone could bring
her to these realms, and was about to throw herself from a tower,
when a voice instructed her how to enter a cavern, and propitiate
Cerberus with cakes after the approved fashion.
She thus reached Proserpine's throne, and obtained the casket, but
when she had again reached the earth, she reflected that if Venus's
beauty were impaired by anxiety, her own must have suffered far more;
and the prohibition having of course been only intended to stimulate
her curiosity, she opened the casket, out of which came the baneful
fumes of Death! Just, however, as she fell down overpowered, her
husband, who had been shut up by Venus, came to the rescue, and
finding himself unable to restore her, cried aloud to Jupiter, who
heard his prayer, reanimated Psyche, and gave her a place among the
gods.
CHAPTERS.
I. A SYLLABUB PARTY.
II. THE HOUSE OF DELAVIE.
III. AMONG THE COWSLIPS.
IV. MY LADY'S MISSIVE.
V. THE SUMMONS.
VI. DISAPPOINTED LOVE.
VII. ALL ALONE.
VIII. THE ENCHANTED CASTLE.
IX. THE TRIAD.
X. THE DARK CHAMBER.
XI. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE.
XII. THE SHAFTS OF PHOEBE.
XIII. THE FLUTTER OF HIS WINGS.
XIV.
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