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The Marchese raised his eyebrows expressively with the slightest shrug of his shoulders

"You may doubt that of every e nowadays They want so new!--God alone knohat they want!"

Don Aloysius sighed

"Aye! God alone knows! And God alone will decide what to give the more 'sensational' than husband and children!" said Rivardi a trifle bitterly--"Only a prientle hand on his shoulder

"Come, come! Do not be cynical,can find an entrance to a wo That is the difficulty with the little millionairess Royal She is not capable!"

He uttered the last words slowly and with emphasis

Rivardi gave hilance

"You seem to know that as a certainty"--he said, "How and why do you know it?"

Aloysius raised his eyes and looked straight ahead of hi intensity

"I cannot tell you hohy"--he answered--"You would not believe me if I told you that sos are born who are neither man nor woman, and who partake of a nature that is not so ht one not alenerated of flesh and blood, they are not altogether flesh and blood, but possess other untested and unproved essences led in their corope in utter ignorance of the greatest of mysteries--Life!--and with all our modern advancement, we are utterly unable to measure or to account for life's many and various inative prophecy, the 'eles was accepted by o discredited assertions of the Count de Gabalis and others of his mystic cult,--and I around for their beliefs Life is many-sided;--humanity can only be one facet of the diamond"

Giulio Rivardi had listened with surprised attention

"You seeana Royal, is hardly a woman at all?--a kind of sexless creature incapable of love?"

"Incapable of the usual kind of so-called 'love'--yes!" answered Aloysius--"But of love in other for!--she may be capable of a passion deep and ht and arrive no closer to the solving of this little feminine problener, to have been chosen by her to carry out her conceptions of structural and picturesque beauty--let the romance stay there!--and do not try to become the husband of a Sphinx!"