omes between
Donatello and Miriam as they lean on the parapet crowning the Tarpeian
Rock, the Italian throws him over the precipice and kills him. From
that moment, although he is not accused of the deed, the joyous faun
becomes the haunted man.

"Nothing will ever comfort me!" he says moodily to Miriam, when she
would extenuate his crime. "I have a great weight here!" lifting her
hand to his breast. Wild creatures, once his loved companions, shun
him as he, in turn, shuns the face of man. He disappears from the
story, hand-in-hand with Miriam, bound, it would seem, upon
a penitential pilgrimage, or to begin a new life in another
hemisphere.--Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Marble Faun_ (1860).

DONATION OF PEPIN. When Pepin conquered Ataulf (Adolphus), the
exarchate of Ravenna fell into his hands. Pepin gave the pope both the
ex-archate and the republic of Rome; and this munificent gift is the
world-famous "Donation of Pepin," on which rested the whole fabric of
the temporal power of the popes (A.D. 755). Victor Emmanuel, king of
Italy, dispossessed the pope of his temporal sovereignty, and added
the papal states to the united kingdom of Italy, over which he reigned
(1870).

DONDASCH', an Oriental giant, contemporary with Seth, to whose service
he was attached. He needed no weapons, because he could destroy
anything by his muscular force.

DON'EGILD (3 _syl_.), the wicked mother of Alia, king of
Northumberland. Hating Custance because she was a Christian, Donegild
set her adrift with her infant son. When Alia returned from Scotland,
and discovered this act of cruelty, he put his mother to death; then
going to Rome on a pilgrimage, met his wife and child, who had been
brought there a little time previously.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_
("The Man of Law's Tale," 1388).

DON'ET, the first grammar put into the hands of scholars. It was that
of Dona'tus the grammarian, who taught in Rome in the fourth century,
and was the preceptor of St. Jerome. When "Graunde Amour" was sent to
study under Lady Gramer, she taught him, as he says:

First my donet, and then my accedence.

S. Hawes, _The Pastime of Plesure_, v. (time Henry VII.).

DONI'CA, only child of the lord of Ar'kinlow (an elderly man). Young
Eb'erhard loved her, and the Finnish maiden was betrothed to him.
Walking one evening by the lake, Donica heard the sound of the
death-spectre, and fell lifeless in the arms of her lover. Presently
the dead maiden received a