As they looked about them for some clue to serve as guide, they could not help but observe and admire the wonders of nature. […] They were about to fall upon Cadmus, when the same voice bade him cast a stone in the midst of their close-drawn phalanx. […] Bitterly did Arachne now repent of her folly; and in her despair she bound a rope about her neck, and hung herself. […] His clear notes floated over the sea, and allured a school of dolphins, which came and played about the ship. […] It seemed to him that the nymph was about to emerge from her hiding place to reconnoitre.