I cannot leave you to their mercy, nor can I remain at home for the next twelve dozen days, like a chained watch-dragon.

Pass them over!" (as she strove to remonstrate); "there is something new this time.

You have been harassed and frightened as well as unhappy." "Yes," she admitted, "but I can give nothing like a reason.

I dare not entreat you not to ask, and yet I am only like a child, that wakes screaming by night, and cannot say of what she is afraid.

Ought she not to be whipped ?" "I can't say, bambina; but I should not advise Eive to startle _you_ in that way! But, seriously, I suppose fear is most painful when it has no cause that can be removed.