And the prince was so abhorrent to me.

And the shame, the disgrace--oh, how terrible it was!" "And you incurred it for my son's sake," the old man interrupted, raising her hand, wet with his tears, to his lips; but she fixed her eyes on Ephraim, sobbing softly: "I thought of him too.

He is so young, and it is so horrible in the mines." She shuddered again as she spoke; but the youth covered her burning hand with kisses, while she gazed affectionately at him and the old man, adding in faltering accents: "Oh, all is well now, and if the gods grant him freedom...." Here Ephraim interrupted her to exclaim in fiery tones: "We are going to the mines this very day.

I and my comrades, and my grandfather with us, will put his guards to flight." "And he shall hear from my lips," Nun added, "how faithfully Kasana loved him, and that his life will be too short to thank her for such a sacrifice." His voice failed him--but every trace of suffering had vanished from the countenance of the dying girl, and for a long time she gazed heavenward silently with a happy look.

By degrees, however, her smooth brow contracted in an anxious frown, and she gasped in low tones: "Well, all is well...