The newly ennobled parvenus were worse than the old boyars; they hugged the serf system more lovingly and the serfs more hatefully.

" [Footnote A: Literally "thrashed-while-damp noblewoman," i.e., hastily ennobled.

My Transatlantic readers will never have to grow accustomed to speak of Mr. Lowell as the Earl of Mount Auburn, and I firmly believe that Mr. Howells would consider it a chastisement to be hopelessly ennobled.

[Y] Thus was man 275 Ennobled outwardly before my sight, And thus my heart was early introduced To an unconscious love and reverence Of human nature; hence the human form To me became an index of delight, 280 Of grace and honour, power and worthiness.

And to watch and share its mood is positively ennobling to the stranger.

This result arose partly out of the nature of the case, for the vessels were oared galleys and the service of the oar can scarcely be ennobled; but the Romans might at least have formed separate legions of marines and taken steps towards the rearing of a class of Roman naval officers.

Consequently their love cannot have been ennobled by any of the refined, esthetic, intellectual, and moral qualities which are embodied in a refined face and a daintily modelled figure.

Those that share thy blood:a collateral relative of Joanna's was subsequently ennobled by the title of du Lys.]