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Présentation d'Ulysse à Nausica, 1842. A l'aspect du héros souillé de limon noir, Tout fuit, mais Nausica dans sa pudeur naïve; Lui dit en rougissant sans quitter sa lessive: Quel Dieu noble étranger t'amène en mon lavoir? (Traduction inédite de Mr. Casimir Delavigne). (Introduction of Ulysses to Nausicaa. The sight of the hero, dirty with black silt, causes Nausicaa a problem of guilt, To present him like that to her mother at home will result in her sleeping at night alone." (Unpublished translation by M. Casimir Delavigne).) [At the sight of the hero soiled with black mud, Everything flees, but Nausica, in her naive modesty, says to him, blushing without leaving her laundry: What noble, foreign god brings you to my washhouse?]