EK KORONIS~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}.(279)

_J. M._--Beautiful lines. {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} such a tender word, and it is
untranslatable.

_Mr. G._--Oh, _desiderium_.

"Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Tam cari capitis."(280)

_J. M._--The Scotch word "_wearying_" for somebody. And
_Sehnsucht_.

Then Mr. G. went off to his library to hunt up the reference, and
when I followed him, I found the worn old _Odyssey_ open at the
passage in the eleventh book. As he left the room, he looked at me
and said, "Ah, this is very different stuff for talking about,
from all the wretched work we were speaking of just now. Homer's
fellows would have cut a very different figure, and made short
work in that committee room last week!" We had a few more words on
politics.... So I bade him good-bye.... #/

(M160) In view of the horrors of dissension in Ireland, well-meaning
attempts were made at the beginning of the year to bring about an
understanding. The Irish members, returning from America where the schism
at home had quenched all enthusiasm and killed their operations, made
their way to Boulogne, for the two most important among them were liable
to instant arrest if they were found in the United Kingdom. They thought
that Mr. Parnell was really desirous to withdraw on such terms as would
save his self-respect, and if he could plead hereafter that before giving
way h