Berenike drew the flax from the distaff, at first slowly, then faster and faster.
"You know my country-house in the Kanopus," the guest began.

"It was originally a small summer palace belonging to the royal family, and underwent little change after we moved into it.

Even the garden is unaltered.

It was full of shady old trees.

Olympus, the leech, had chosen this place, that my father might complete within its walls the work of education entrusted to him.