The frank expression of his face vanished, and with the deep breath of a man who is throwing a weight from his heart, he muttered,-- "He loves me,--yes; but will suffer no one else to love me! This must end some day.

I am weary of the bondage." And sauntering towards the ladies, he listened in silence, but not apparently in displeasure, to his queen's sharp sayings on the imperious mood and irritable temper of the iron-handed builder of his throne..