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Miss Bellinghaly

"It is a char little portrait, isn't it?" she said; "and such a sweet face, too; so thoughtful and hu is full of charm I fell in love with it the first time I saw it And it is so Greek!"

"Yes, it is, in spite of the Egyptian gods and symbols"

"Rather because of them, I think," said she "There we have the typical Greek attitude, the genial, cultivated eclecticism that appreciated the fitness of even thebeside the bier; there are Isis and Nephthys, and there below, Horus and Tahuti But we can't suppose that Arteods They are there because they are splendid decoration and perfectly appropriate in character The real feeling of those who loved the dead man breaks out in the inscription" She pointed to a band below the pectoral, where, in gilt capital letters, ritten the tords, "[Greek: ARTEMIDORE EUPsUChI]"

"Yes," I said, "it is very dignified and very human"

"And so sincere and full of real e 'O Arterief, the sorrow of eternal parting How ar boastfulness of the Semitic epitaphs, or our own one before' type He was gone from them for ever; they would look on his face and hear his voice no more; they realised that this was their last farewell Oh, there is a world of love and sorrow in those two silarief had stolen over me, and I was content to stand silent by my beloved cohosts of human emotions over which so many centuries had rolled Presently she turned to hed in the balance of friendship," she said, "and not found wanting You have the gift of sympathy, even with a woood many men would have developed this precious quality under the circu so There is no use in crying down one's oares I was glad enough to have earned her good opinion so easily, and when she at length turned away fro roo man who bore her company