She has been lending Synesius money to fight the black fellows with; and really it was high time.

They had burnt every homestead for miles through the province.

But the daring old girl must do a little business for herself; so she went off, in the teeth of the barbarians, right away to the Atlas, bought all their lady prisoners, and some of their own sons and daughters, too, of them, for beads and old iron; and has come back with as pretty a cargo of Lybian beauties as a prefect of good taste could wish to have the first choice of.

You may thank me for that privilege.' 'After, of course, you had suited yourself, my cunning Raphael ?' 'Not I.Women are bores, as Solomon found out long ago.

Did I never tell you?
I began, as he did, with the most select harem in Alexandria.