To do him justice, he did at last threaten to get out of the carriage; upon which, roused by me, she collared him--and conquered.
When he got to his own district, things grew worse, for if any _aide-de-camp_ offended her she insisted that he might be publicly reprimanded; and should the poor general refuse she would with her own hands confer a caning upon the delinquent.

The additional force she had gained in me was too much odds against the poor general, and he died of a broken heart, six months after my _liaison_ with his wife.

She after this became so dreaded and detested, that a conspiracy was formed to poison her; this daunted even me, so I left her without delay,--_et me voici_!" "Humph," said Meekness, with an air of triumph, "I, at least, have been more successful than you.

On seeing much in the papers of the cruelties practised by the Turks on the Greeks, I thought my presence would enable the poor sufferers to bear their misfortunes calmly.

I went to Greece, then, at a moment when a well-planned and practicable scheme of emancipating themselves from the Turkish yoke was arousing their youth.
Without confining myself to one individual, I flitted from breast to breast; I meekened the whole nation; my remonstrances against the insurrection succeeded, and I had the satisfaction of leaving a whole people ready to be killed or strangled with the most Christian resignation in the world." The Virtues, who had been a little cheered by the opening self-complacence of Meekness, would not, to her great astonishment, allow that she had succeeded a whit more happily than her sisters, and called next upon Modesty for her confession.
"You know," said that amiable young lady, "that I went to London in search of a situation.