Ho, there!--I will send my page to conduct thee to thy apartments, and thou shalt lodge next to Friar Bungey, a man of wondrous lere, Master Warner, and a worthy confrere in thy researches.

Hast thou any one of kith and kin at home to whom thou wilt announce thy advancement ?" "Ah, lady! Heaven forgive me, I have a daughter,--an only child,--my Sibyll; I cannot leave her alone, and--" "Well, nothing should distract thy cares from thine art,--she shall be sent for.

I will rank her amongst my maidens.

Fare-thee-well, Master Warner! At night I will send for thee, and appoint the tasks I would have thee accomplish." So saying, the duchess quitted the room, and left Adam alone, bending over his model in deep revery.
From this absorption it was the poor man's fate to be again aroused.
The peculiar character of the boy-prince of Gloucester was that of one who, having once seized upon an object, never willingly relinquished it.
First, he crept and slid and coiled round it as the snake.

But if craft failed, his passion, roused by resistance, sprang at his prey with a lion's leap: and whoever examines the career of this extraordinary personage, will perceive, that whatever might be his habitual hypocrisy, he seemed to lose sight of it wholly when once resolved upon force.