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It made me somehow feel as though I were one of Asp's Fables, or were being translated into English as that old school-room horror of Androclus and the Lion. In the bottom of my soul I don't believe that Georgiana cares for birds, or knows the difference between a blackbird and a crow. I am going to send her a little story, "The Passion of the Desert." Mrs.

'Oh, it is only for a very short time that I need them, said the fox; 'I have a pair of my own just behind that hill, and when I find them I will bring yours back to you. Perhaps you will keep these till them. So he took the eyes out of his own head and popped them into the head of the asp, and put the asp's eyes in their place.

'Oh, it is only for a very short time that I need them, said the fox; 'I have a pair of my own just behind that hill, and when I find them I will bring yours back to you. Perhaps you will keep these till then. So he took the eyes out of his own head and popped them into the head of the asp, and put the asp's eyes in their place.

We live by love, we die for love, and yet we never find it, but only selfishness dressed up in love's mask.... And then we take up with that, poor, fond, self-blinded creatures that we are! and in spite of the poisoned hearts around us, persuade ourselves that our latest asp's egg, at least, will hatch into a dove, and that though all men are faithless, our own tyrant can never change, for he is more than man!

He dwelt in Clifford's Inn, "like a dove in an asp's nest," as Charles Lamb wittily says; and he might often have been seen with a classical volume in his hand, and another in his pocket, walking slowly along Fleet Street or its neighborhood, unconscious of gazers, cogitating over some sentence, the correctness of which it was his duty to determine.

No inconsiderable portion of his moderate fortune, I apprehend, is consumed in journeys between them and Clifford's-inn where, like a dove on the asp's nest, he has long taken up his unconscious abode, amid an incongruous assembly of attorneys, attorneys' clerks, apparitors, promoters, vermin of the law, among whom he sits, "in calm and sinless peace."