Do you not know what a cupel is?
It is a small capsule or cup of a porous substance, used in the refining process, and possessing the property of absorbing the fused oxides and retaining the refined metal.

What is the proportion of lead or of gold ore in M.Larinski's heart?
Neither you nor I know." She was no longer listening; her chin in her hand, her glances wandered over the glade.

He touched her arm gently to rouse her, and said: "It is all over?
You love him ?" "Why will you make me say so ?" she replied, blushing.
"And he has declared himself?
He has dared----" "He has dared nothing.

Ah! how little you know him! If you were to offer me to him, his pride would say no, and I would have to go down on my knees to get the better of his refusal." "We will say, at once, that he is unique, that he is a marvel, that there is not a second Pole like him; the mould has been broken.

And yet are you sure that he loves you ?" She replied by a motion of the head.
"I should confess," he resumed, "that the passion that is called the grand passion is for me a sealed letter, the mystery of mysteries.