The Little Schoolmaster Mark

ter sparkled as before, nevertheless a sudden change and deadness fell upon the garden and its throng of guests. The hush that had preceded Mark's app

admit of comfort, he stroked her hand kindly, as he would that of a child. The Herald, who was evidently exceedingly disgusted at the turn things had taken, and the quite unnecessary stop that had been put to the play, had retired a few paces, and was in conference with Carricchio, who

e was very sad but without a touch of scorn; "you may resume

of a yet more perfect stillness, as in the presence of a being of a holier and a lof

nd, entering at once into the hall, she deposited her burden upon the long table, where the household was wont to dine. She laid it wi

s she then good because she was so miserable? Ah no! Or

he table, near the head of the child. His face was very pale, and the eyes had lost the habitual languor of their expression, and were full of an earnest tender grief. The Princess rose, and

said; "I told this child that I

control, and went on more passionately-"I, who pretended to the devoted life! in which alone he could breathe;

with eyes full of compa

one. More, in fact; you came to the help of his faith against evil. It is alwa

his faith had been the Prince: a tolerance which is kindly and even appreciative, and yet, as with a cl

for me, this has been a terrible shock-more than I could have thought possible, I who fancied myself so secure and so serene. That such a terrible chance could happen shows how unstable are the most finished schemes of life. I fancied that my life was an art, and I dreamed

il. Nothing profits, save the Divine Humanity, which, through the mystery of Sacrifice, has entered the unseen. You know

hand upon the breast of the child. As they stood, looking each other full in the eyes, in the notorious beauty of their order and of their