La gloire!' The rest he muttered.

'These English!' was heard.

Aminta said: 'Am I never to see Steignton ?' Lord Ormont invoked the Powers.

He could not really give answer to this female talk of the eternities.
'Beaten I can never be,' he said, with instinctive indulgence to the greater creature.

'But down there at Steignton, I should be haunted by a young donkey swearing himself the fellow I grew up out of.