Psyche’s parents were wrong to compare their daughter with Venus, but Psyche was perfectly innocent, and did not deserve to be punished for the folly of her father and mother; however, Venus resolved to bring some misfortune upon the young princess, and she said, “I will give her the ugliest husband in the world, and she shall dislike him, and he shall make her miserable.” […] Pluto, however, resolved to have her without her mother’s permission. […] I will not do so; I will, however, drive him from my palace: I will vex and mortify him, so that he shall be very miserable, and go away to some distant country. […] Polydectes, however, was mistaken in this expectation. […] Jupiter, however, persuaded Apollo that it was necessary, few the preservation of the earth, that the presumptuous charioteer should die; and afterward induced Apollo to reascend his glorious car, and to cheer the earth mice mere with the smiles of the blessed sun.

She had one great fault, however, — she was too talkative; and the worst of it was, she told such interesting stories that her listeners would forget how the time was passing. […] Arachne, however, brought wealth and comfort into their little cottage, through her great skill in spinning and embroidering. […] He made one condition, however, — that Orpheus must not look back at his wife until they had passed the bounds of Hades. […] Phryxus, however, clung to the ram’s back, and at last they alighted together in the land of Colchis, far away from the boy’s old home.