Nature has a sanctity against which I cannot (nor would I) steel conviction.

I believe in mine own knowledge, and that has revealed to me--but no matter.

Now to earthlier and more inviting themes.

If I thus fulfilled my object with Apaecides, what was my design for Ione?
Thou knowest already I intend her for my queen--my bride--my heart's Isis.

Never till I saw her knew I all the love of which my nature is capable.' 'I hear from a thousand lips that she is a second Helen,' said Calenus; and he smacked his own lips, but whether at the wine or at the notion it is not easy to decide.
'Yes, she has a beauty that Greece itself never excelled,' resumed Arbaces.