Our poor, battered aristocracy--the Radicals have kicked away all its natural supports, and left it _dans l'air_; but it can still teach manners and the art to please.

The undergraduates, however, seem shy of her." For although among the groups of men, who stood huddled together mostly at the back of the room, many eyes were turned upon the newcomer, no one among them approached her.

She held her court among the seniors, as no doubt, thought the Master, she had been accustomed to do from the days of her short frocks.

He envisaged the apartment in the Palazzo Barberini whereof the fame had often reached Oxford, for the Risboroughs held open house there for the English scholar and professor on his travels.

He himself had not been in Rome for fifteen years, and had never made the Risboroughs' acquaintance in Italy.