And successes won by so slight an exertion offer little charm.

The second expedition before sunset, Gras, shall be given up.

The master of the hounds, with his men and the dogs, will return home on the transports this very day.

I am disgusted with sport here.

Birds of prey, and those only when brought down from the air, would probably be the right game in this place." "Those are the very ones to which I would grant life," said Hermon, smiling, "because they enjoy it most." "Then we will at least save the sea eagle," cried Daphne, and ordered the steward, who was already having the dead fowl carried off, to care for the wounded bird of prey; but when the latter struck furiously with his beak at the Biamite who attempted to remove it, Hermon again turned to the girl, saying: "I thank you in the eagle's name for your good will, you best of women; but I fear even the most careful nursing will not help this wounded creature, for the higher one seeks to soar, the more surely he goes to destruction if his power of flight is broken.
Mine, too, was seriously injured." "Here ?" asked Daphne anxiously.