He entered them as a citizen of the world and as an examiner of all philosophy.

Yet the world taught him nothing.

It gave him merely the open school where regulation and atmosphere helped him to teach himself.

O wife of a child, thou shalt not be ashamed of thy husband, man-grown!" "How is he favored ?" she asked with the first maiden hesitation showing in the question.
"He was slender and dark and promised to be tall.

He was quick in movement, quick in temper, resourceful, aye, even shifty, I should say; stubborn, cold in heart, hard to please." "Fit attributes for a king," she said, half to herself, "yet he will be no soft husband." Costobarus looked away from her and was silent for a time.
"Daughter," he said finally, "thou hast learned indeed that thine is to be no luxurious life.