His sole other possession was a negative quantity--his hunger, namely, for he had not even a meal in his body: he had eaten nothing since the preceding noon.

I am wrong--he had one possession besides, though hardly a separable one--a ballad about a fair lady and her page, which Donal had taught him.

That he now began to repeat to himself, but was disappointed to find it a good deal withered.

He was not nearly reduced to extremity yet though--this little heir of the world: in his body he had splendid health, in his heart a great courage, and in his soul an ever-throbbing love.

It was his love to the very image of man, that made the horror of the treatment he had received.