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" ‘Sire,' I replied, ‘joys prove cloudlets, / Men are the merest Ixions. ' / Here the King whistled aloud, ‘Let's, / Heigho, go look at our lions! ' / Such are the sorrowful chances / If you talk fine to King Francis. " / R. Browning
The day after Rachel's adventure with Don a card came into the drawing-room, and therewith a message that the gentleman had availed himself of Mrs. Curtis's kind permission, and was sketching the Spinster's Needles, two sharp points of red rock that stood out in the sea at the end of the peninsula, and were specially appropriated by Rachel and Grace.