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"Guard your tongue!" the artist burst forth angrily "The woman visited me unasked, and I let her leave me as faithful or as unfaithful to her husband as she came If I used her as a oddess," Ledscha interrupted, with a sneering laugh

"Into a fish-seller, if you wish to know it," cried Her shad I took the subject, and found in Gula a suitable model Unfortunately, she ventured here far too seldom But I can finish it with the help of the sketch--it stands in yonder cupboard"

"A fish-seller," Ledscha repeated contemptuously "And for what did my Taus, poor lovely child, seem desirable?"

"Over opposite," Heret rid of a troublesoh theout of doors, "the freethe hot days, took off their sandals and waded through the water There I saw your sister's feet They were the prettiest of all, and Gula brought the young girl toher foot in her hand to take out a thorn, so I used your sister's for it"

"And when my turn comes?" Ledscha deic of her beauty, in a kinder, alold and ivory, you wonderfully lovely creature, the counterpart of this goddess"

"And you will need a long time for it?"

"The oftener you come the faster the ill advance"

"And the ers at me"

"Yet you ventured here to-day, unasked, in the broad light of noon"

"Because I wish to re Yesterday you did not appear; but to-day-I areatest delight, if it is possible," he answered eagerly

A warlance from her dark eyes rested upon him The blood seethed in his veins, and as he extended both hands to her and ardently uttered her na to hi assistance, but when his lips touched hers she shrank back and loosed her soft arms from his neck

"What does thisto draw her toward hi in a softer tone than before: "Not now; but--a? Just this once let the daughter of Archias yield to ht, and you have heard as predicted to ods can bestow upon a mortal awaits me"