"I have wondered and wondered, ay, many a time, how you did it." "Yet I did it?
You grant that ?" "Yes." "And you do not understand--with what ?" Grio shook his head.
"Then why mistrust me now, blockhead," the other retorted, "when I say that as I charmed her, I can charm Blondel?
Ay, and more easily.

You know not how I did the one, nor how I shall do the other," the big man continued.

"But what of that ?" And in a louder voice, and with a gusto which showed how genuine was his delight in the metre, "Pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus Dis geniti potuere," he mouthed.

"But that," he added, looking scornfully at his confederate, "is Greek to you!" Grio's altered aspect, his crestfallen air owned the virtue of the argument if not of the citation; which he did not understand.

He drew a deep breath.