The Princess came; but she did not go away." "How curious! Did she die of a peach-stone at the banquet ?" "Not at all.

She became Princess of Este instead of Sheba." "Oh-h-h," says Grace Plumer, in a long-drawn exclamation.

"And then ?" "Why, Miss Grace, how insatiable you are!--then I came away." "You did?
I wouldn't have come away." "No, Miss Grace, you didn't." "How--I didn't?
What does that mean, Mr.Moultrie ?" "I mean the Princess remained." "So you said.

Is that all ?" "No." "Well." "Oh! the rest is nothing.

I mean nothing new." "Let me hear the old story, then, Mr.Moultrie." "The rest is merely that the Princess found that the fiery eyes burned her and the eloquent tongue stung her, and truly that is the whole.