Well, now I'm to have a glimpse of another new world.

Mr St Aubyn has shown me one or two; what will Mr Buskin's be like?
It's all extremely interesting, anyhow." Then he stumped along to the river side, giving a majestic twirl to his wooden leg with every step he took through the long grass.

How he would have loved a bathe! The pool where he had so enjoyed himself with Lubin was not far off--the pool of Daphnis, as he had christened it; but he hesitated to venture in alone.

So he lay down on the bank and watched the yellow water-lilies from afar, dreaming of many things.

How clever Lubin was, and what a lot he knew! Why geese should dance for rain he couldn't even imagine; but the rain had actually come, and it was all a most suggestive mystery.