heart replete with gratification.

"If he is dragged into the prison and locked up to rot in the dungeon,
they will blame me the last of all," he muttered. "Heavens, how
supernally beautiful she is! There are times when I think that if she
and her rival occupied the scales of the balance, a butterfly's wing
would turn them. My heart would be divided in their mutual favor."

With the same aerial step, he passed two or three men in threadbare
suits and shabby hats, who were hovering about the Persepolitan, and who
carefully exchanged glances of understanding with him. He went straight
to the superintendent-inspector of police, and sat down in his cabinet
to concert with him on the best way to suppress, without scandal, the
dangerous emissary from ever-restless Poland, lodged in consultation
with the Jew, the bugbear of the monarchies of Europe.

"Tut, tut! tell not the official that Daniels and his daughter, for the
paltry lucre of the drink-halls or for artistic satisfaction, made the
tour of the capitals!"

In the meantime, the "suspects," not themselves suspicious, commenced,
with Rebecca a listener, upon the move counseled by the chivalrous
major. It was one they had almost settled upon and they determined to
put it all the sooner into execution. The post chaise was kept in a
state of readiness, alike with the horse that drew it on these important
occasions, a surefooted nag whose pace was better than her appearance.
Claudius, to be sure, rested under the disadvantage of being a stranger
to the roads, as he had traveled only upon one to enter this
city--commonly accounted dull, but so far crammed with serious
adventures. This blank in his topographical lore was easily filled: the