I will never forget that face in the caldron.

It was the most exquisitely beautiful I ever saw." "In love with the shadow of a face! Why, you are a thousand-fold more absurd than I." "No," said Sir Norman, thoughtfully, "I don't know as I'm in love with it; but if ever I see a living face like it, I certainly shall be.

How did La Masque do it, I wonder ?" "You had better ask her," said Ormiston, bitterly.

"She seems to have taken an unusual interest in you at first sight.

She would strew your path with roses, forsooth! Nothing earthly, I believe, would make her say anything half so tender to me." Sir Norman laughed, and stroked his moustache complacently.
"All a matter of taste, my dear fellow: and these women are noted for their perfection in that line.