There is Latin in answer to thy logic." It is impossible to convey any notion of the terror, the rage, the despair, which seized upon the unhappy sage when these words smote his ear, and he saw the smith's brawny arms swing on high the ponderous hammer.

He flung himself between the murderous stroke and his beloved model.

He embraced the grim iron tightly.

"Kill me!" he exclaimed sublimely, "kill me!--not my THOUGHT!" "Solomon was verily and indeed a wise king," said the duke, with a low inward laugh.

"And now, man, I have thee! To save thy infant, thine art's hideous infant, confess the whole!" It was then that a fierce struggle evidently took place in Adam's bosom.
It was, perhaps--O reader! thou whom pleasure, love, ambition, hatred, avarice, in thine and our ordinary existence, tempt--it was, perhaps, to him the one arch-temptation of a life.