"It will be right simple to have her beauty spoiled in this hungry town, unless he takes tenderest care of her." There was still no comment, but the lively sparkle in the Greek's eye showed that he had touched upon a jealous spot.
"And by the by," he pursued, "what does this stranger, whom I can not remember having known, look like?
A villain ?" She answered now in a voice filled with rancor.
"Win away the girl from him and thou wilt know thyself to be the better man; but study how much he hath outstripped thee and thou shalt decide for thyself, then, that he is handsomer, more winsome, stronger and more profitable.

Describe him for thyself." "Out upon you! How irritable misfortune makes most of us! Now, here is my lady.

She would fail to see the humor in my fetching back this pretty impostor.

Alas! Were I Deucalion or Pyrrha or whoever else it was that repeopled the world, I should have left jealousy out of the make-up of wives.

It is a needless element.