if the professor could say that amidst the general wreck in which he sat like another he had little to learn in the gentle art of self tion but there was nothing to gain by him then good bye said and held out his hand good bye she said without offering to take it or look at and after a miserable pause he left the study but before he had reached the front door he heard a and of behind him and felt her light hand on his arm ah no she said clinging to him i can t let you go like this i didn t by ic let us kiss and part mean all the things i said just now i do believe in you at least i ll try hard to and i shall always always love you i shan t care � very much � even if you forget me so long as you are happy only don t be too happy think of me sometimes i shall not be too happy he said as he held her close to his heart and kissed her drawn mouth and flushed cheeks and i shall think of you and you won t fall in love with your princess entreated at the end of her promise if i am ever provided with one he replied i shall her � for not being you but don t let us lose heart darling there must be some way of talking that old idiot out of this nonsense and bringing him round to common sense i m not going to give in just yet these were brave words � but as they both felt the situation had little enough to warrant them and after one last long embrace they parted and he was no sooner on the steps than he felt himself caught up as before and borne through the air with breathless speed till he was set down he could not have well said how in a chair in his own sitting room at square well he said looking at the who was by ic the brass bottle standing opposite with a smile of intolerable complacency i suppose you feel satisfied with yourself over this business it hath indeed been brought to a favourable conclusion said well hath the poet written i don t think i can stand any more elegant this afternoon interrupted let us come to business you seem he went on with a strong effort to keep himself in hand to have formed some plan for marrying me to a king s daughter may i ask you for full particulars no honour and advancement can be in excess of thy deserts answered the very kind of you to say but you are probably unaware that as society is constituted at the present time the objections to such an alliance would be quite for me said the few obstacles are but speak thy mind freely i will said to begin with no european princess of the blood royal would entertain the idea for a moment and if she did she would her rank and cease to be a princess and i should probably be imprisoned in a fortress for or something dismiss thy fears for i do not propose to unite thee to any princess that is born of mortals the bride i intend for thee is a the by ic let its kiss and part i el daughter of my the of the blue oh is she though said i m exceedingly obliged but whatever may be the lady s attractions her nose the with enthusiasm is like unto the keen edge of a polished sword her hair jewels and her cheeks are ruddy as wine she hath heavy and when she aside she to shame the wild cows my good excellent friend said by no means impressed by this catalogue of charms one doesn t marry to wild cows when she with a gait continued as though he had not been interrupted the willow branch itself green with envy personally said a doesn t strike me as particularly it s quite a matter of taste do you happen to have seen this lately my eyes have not been refreshed by her manifold beauties since i was enclosed by � whose name be accursed � in the ss bottle of which thou why dost thou ask merely because it occurred to me that after very nearly three thousand years your charming may � well to put it as mildly as possible not have q by ic the brass bottle altogether escaped the usual effects of time i she must be getting on you know silly bearded one said the in rebuke art thou then ignorant that we of the are not as mortals that we should feel the of age forgive me if i m personal said but surely your own hair and beard might be described as rather to grey not from age said this from long confinement i see said like the prisoner of well assuming that the lady in question is still in the bloom of early youth i see one fatal difficulty to becoming her doubtless said the thou art referring to the son of the son of no i wasn t said because you see i don t remember having ever heard of him however he s another fatal difficulty that makes two of them surely i have spoken of him to thee as my foe it is true that he is a powerful and who hath long persecuted the with hateful attentions yet it may be possible by good fortune to overthrow him then i gather that any for s hand would be looked upon as a rival by the amiable by ic let us kiss and part far is he from being of an amiable disposition answered the simply and he would be so transported by rage and jealousy that he 