Nec Veneris pharetris macer est; aut lampade fervet: Inde faces ardent, veniunt a dote sagittæ.

Such, then, was our JOANNAJOANNA MERESIA SPRATT, to give her that full name by which posterity is to know heran ardent, bubbling, bacon-loving girl-nature, with hands reaching from earth to the stars, that blinked egregiously at the sight of her innocent beauty, and hid themselves in winding clouds for very love of her.

Her own vivid description of the "naughtiest day in my life," in St. Nicholas, September and October, 1880, shows the ardent, wilful child who was one day to stand out fearlessly before the nation and tell its statesmen the wrong they had done to "her Indians.

Thus do those votive offerings mysteriously convey admiration for the constancy and sympathy with the posthumous union of two hearts who transposed conjugal tenderness from the senses to the soul, who spiritualized the most ardent of human passions, and changed love itself into a holocaust, a martyrdom, and a holy sacrifice.

I have heard that Venice did not hesitate to use the ardent and brave in this manner.