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SECOND VOICE Far better a ho companionship than

all the philosophy of all the schools; surely Happiness is

greater than Learning, and more to be desired than Wisdom!

FIRST VOICE Better rather that Destiny had never sent her to

you

MYSELF (rubbingin

particular) Her?

SECOND VOICE Her!--to be sure, she who has been in your

thoughts all day long

FIRST VOICE (with lofty disdain) Crass folly!--a woman utterly

unknoho came heralded by the roar of wind and the rush of

rain--a creature born of the tempest, with flame in her eyes and

hair, and fire in the scarlet of her iven to hot i of a man's life!

("But," said I, somewhat diffidently, "the felloas a proved

scoundrel!") FIRST VOICE (bellowing) Sophistry! sophistry! even supposing he

was the greatest of villains, does that make her less a ) Of course not! Again, can this woman

even faintly compare with your ideal of what a woant! Can a woth to level a pistol, and whose , sweet-SECOND VOICE (sotto) And sticky!