At last another cicada set up a louder note some yards away and, without a nod or a sign, Juliet skipped off into space, leaving the most disconsolate little Romeo of a grasshopper you ever beheld.

He gave vent to a dismal failure of a vibration and hopped to the foot of the faithless lady's bower.
Carlotta broke into a merry laugh and clapped her hands.
"I am so glad." "She is the most graceless hussy imaginable," I cried.

"There was he grinding his heart out for her, and just because a more brazen-throated scoundrel came upon the scene she must needs leave our poor friend in the lurch.

She has no more heart than my boot, and she will come to a bad end." "But he was such a fool," retorted my sage damsel, with a flash of laughter in her dark eyes.

"If he wanted her, why didn't he go up and take her ?" "Because he is a gentleman, a cicada of fine and delicate feeling." "_Hou!_" laughed Carlotta.