I showed them her Majesty's picture' (doubtless in ruff, farthingale, and stomacher laden with jewels), 'which they so admired and honoured, as it had been easy to make them idolatrous thereof.'

The ghostly croud with gay surprize Began to rub their stony eyes: Such pleasant lounge, they all averr'd, None saw since he had been interr'd; And thus, like connoisseurs on Earth, Began to weigh the pictures' worth:

DRAGO, HARRY SINCLAIR. Rio Rita, novelized from the radio pictures' adaptation of Florenz Ziegfield's operetta.

DRAGO, HARRY SINCLAIR. Rio Rita, novelized from the radio pictures' adaptation of Florenz Ziegfield's operetta.

'Sea-born niece': Venus. 'Majesty's picture': Henrietta, daughter of Henry IV., married by proxy to Charles I. in Paris, 1st May 1625.

[Footnote 20: The faculty of seeing 'fancy pictures' in the glass is far from uncommon.

With misplaced ingenuity, he argued that sums came right by chance and that Euclid was best learnt by heart, for 'the pictures' simply confused him; and when Julius, amazed at finding so clever a boy in the novel position of dunce, tried to find out what he did know of arithmetic, his ignorance and inappreciation were so unfathomable that Julius doubted whether the power or the will was at fault.