And amid the letters containing these grave sentences, so full of fate, first appears a reference to the pet name of her childhood--the "Ba" which is all that here serves, like Swift's "little language," to indulge a foolish tenderness; and the translator of _Prometheus_ is able to put Greek characters to their most delightful use in her "[Greek: o philtate]." In love-poetry of the Middle Age the allegorical personage named "Danger" plays a considerable part, and it is to be feared that Danger too often signified a husband.

In Wimpole Street that alarming personage always meant a father.

Edward Moulton Barrett was a man of integrity in business, of fortitude in adversity, of a certain stern piety, and from the superior position of a domestic autocrat he could even indulge himself in occasional fiats of affection.

We need not question that there were springs of water in the rock, and in earlier days they had flowed freely.

But now if at night he visited his ailing daughter's room for a few minutes and prayed with her and for her, it meant that on such an occasion she was not too criminal to merit the pious intercession.