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"Why, I dreaht," she said very solemnly

"You dreamed of it, Alice?" he echoed She was called, she had told

hie

"Yes, yes A white bird and two hen-harriers Ah, and there was un!" She was full of

the thing

"Bythe necks of the pair of them," said

Prosper "I know not how they can expect more of me than that"

"Listen," said Alice of the Herraunt is full of hawks You will see her again My

dreaain; but this ti, and achievement only at the peril of your own

honour But it seeht to have won already, and the wound in the breast will be

staunched"

"Huht to do, how I

ought to begin For you know the saw--'The sooner begun, the sooner

done'"

"Oh, sir," cries she, "you shall ride forward in the na your manhood and the vows you made when you took up your

arhts

"I will do that," said Prosper, kindled in his turn And so he left