Therefore when others are present, he gazes on me with down-bent head and eyes upturned from beneath his bulging forehead, as though he would put a spell upon me." "Well, let him gaze.

It can't harm you," I suggested.
"No, but it makes me ill," she answered.

"Three nights ago I was standing with the king and several ladies and gentlemen, waiting for the country dance to begin, for which the king was to call the changes.

This Little Jermyn came up to the group, and, without speaking a word to any one, fixed his upturned eyes on me." "That was a sin," I said, laughing, but she ignored my interruption.
"For a time I paid no heed, but soon his gaze so nauseated me that I could not restrain my anger, and said, loud enough for him and the others to hear, 'What ails the little man, that he should stand there staring at me like a sick calf trying to cast a spell upon the moon ?' The king laughed and Jermyn bowed, as he replied, 'The moon pretends to disdain veal, doubtless in the hope of having royal beef.' The king laughed and told Jermyn to gaze elsewhere, if the moon refused to be spellbound, and the little creature left us to carry out the king's suggestion.

But I shall marry Tyrconnel and make an end of it all just as soon as possible.'" We returned to the palace, and I did not see my cousin during the next week.