"You know me and my position in the world, and you have also known from her earliest childhood the woman to whom I allude." "Iras ?" asked his companion, hesitatingly.

His sister, Charmian, had told him of the love felt by the Queen's younger waiting-woman.
But Dion eagerly denied this, adding I am speaking of Barine, the daughter of your dead friend Leonax.

"I love her, yet my pride is sensitive, and I know that it will extend to my future wife.

The contemptuous glances which others might cast at her I should scorn, for I know her worth.

Surely you remember my mother: she was a very different woman.