Scramble for it, you young Phaedrias and Pamphili! There are Laides and Thaides enough about, who will help you to spend it.' And raising the jewel on high, he was in the act of tossing it into the street, when his arm was seized from behind, and the ring snatched from his hand.

He turned, fiercely enough, and saw behind him, her eyes flashing fury and contempt, old Miriam.
Bran sprang at the old woman's throat in an instant; but recoiled again before the glare of her eye.

Raphael called the dog off, and turning quietly to the disappointed spectators-- 'It is all right, my luckless friends.

You must raise money for yourselves, after all; which, since the departure of my nation, will be a somewhat more difficult matter than ever.

The over-ruling destinies, whom, as you all know so well when you are getting tipsy, not even philosophers can resist, have restored the Rainbow of Solomon to its original possessor.