id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt homer-odyssey_02 homer-odyssey_02 .txt text/plain 4246 161 81 She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.' Sweet hearts,' said she,' Ulysses is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait— for I would not have skill in needlework perish unrecorded— till I have completed a pall for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him. The suitors, therefore, make you this answer, that both you and the Achaeans may understand—'Send your mother away, and bid her marry the man of her own and of her father 's choice'; for I do not know what will happen if she goes on plaguing us much longer with the airs she gives herself on the score of the accomplishments Minerva has taught her, and because she is so clever. ./cache/homer-odyssey_02.txt ./txt/homer-odyssey_02.txt