I was very far from thinking of the granddaughter of the old scholar for whom I interceded." "Ay," she scornfully retorted, "young gentlemen in your position, and with your habits of life, always think of their fathers estimable teachers rather than of the women who, ever since Pandora opened her box, have brought all sorts of misfortunes into the world.

But," she added, pushing back her dark locks from her high forehead, "I don't understand myself, how, with the mountain of care that now burdens my soul, I can waste even a single word upon such trifles.

I care as little for the aged scholar as I do for his legion of commentaries and books, though they are not wholly unfamiliar to me.

For any concern of mine he might have as many grandchildren as there are evil tongues in Alexandria, were it not that just at this time it is of the utmost importance to remove everything which might cast a shadow on the Queen's pathway.

I have just come from the palace of the royal children at Lochias, and what I learned there.