"Madame," said the old warrior, as courtly as he was valiant, "if I may say so without offending my lord the dauphin, they are all so many lovers."

'Would the Sioux maiden leave her tribe and tread the woods with an Assineboin?' said the warrior curiously.

" "What, can it be," said the big warrior, forlornly, "that I who have not yet had twenty-six years of living am past my prime, and that already life is going out of me?" "You must remember the price you paid to win back Dame Niafer from paradise.

" Fastidious Warrior (hopelessly).

And then? WARRIOR (indignantly).

Presumably each doughty warrior knows his own country better than that of the other, which would carry a conclusion directly contrary to that which he draws.

Her warrior, her knight, her emperor now at last, utterly and forever, she his, he hers, yet the last moment of opportunity flitting by and she here helpless to speak the one word of surrender and possession.

[[lacuna]] for upon his applying [to Zeus Belus] it had answered him: "Old man, verily warriors young harass and exhaust thee: Utterly spent is thy strength, and a grievious eld comes upon thee!"

'My sister is very kind,' said the young warrior warmly, after giving vent to the guttural ugh!