all. He feels sore at our seeming to prefer another--I mean another's
conversation--to his!"

Lester turned round in his chair, and regarded with a serious look, the
faces of both sisters.

"My dear Ellinor," said he, when he had finished his survey, "you are a
kind girl--come and kiss me!"




CHAPTER VI.

THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE STUDENT.--A SUMMER SCENE--ARAM'S
CONVERSATION WITH WALTER, AND SUBSEQUENT COLLOQUY WITH
HIMSELF.

"The soft season, the firmament serene,
The loun illuminate air, and firth amene
The silver-scalit fishes on the grete
O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkillond for the heat,"
--Gawin Douglas.



"Ilia subter
Caecum vulnus habes; sed lato balteus auro
Praetegit."
--Persius.