But take the books that are written up there, those deep, pure, humorous books, Lisaveta to me there is nothing like them and I love them. Or just simply take the names, the personal names that adorn the people up there, and that we also had in large numbers at home, take a name like Ingeborg, a harp-chord of the most immaculate poesy.

Let us from time to time visit in company our young charges, and let the result that is, which of our Gifts is proved to confer the greatest amount of happiness, be written in the archives of our kingdom for the future benefit of the mortal race." A murmur of approbation rose, sweet as the vibration of a harp-chord through the assembly.