Croesus; she would not marry a
fool, even though he were also an earl. In choosing a master, her
first necessity was that she should respect him, then that the world
should do so also. She could respect talent--talent if needs be
alone--but nothing without talent. The world's respect could not be
had without wealth. As for love, that was necessary too; but it was
only a third necessity.

Such being our heroine's mind about marriage, I make bold to say
that she had behaved with skill and judgment, and not altogether
heartlessly either.

On the following morning, Sir Lionel and George left Jerusalem
together. The colonel had his own servant, as he always had; George
was followed by the dragoman, who had now been with him for some
time; and each had also an Arab groom. On quitting Jerusalem, Sir
Lionel had made no objection to having the entire bill settled by his
son.

"Well, George," he had said with a smile, "I know you are in ample
funds, and I never am. You, moreover, have a milch cow that will not
run dry. The government is my cow, and she is apt to be very chary in
her supply; she does run dry with uncommon quickness."

George smiled also, and paid the bill readily, protesting that of
course he ought to do so, as Sir Lionel had come there only to see
him. The colonel plumed himself at once upon having managed well; but
he was greatly mistaken. His calculation in this respect had been
made on a false basis. "George," he said to himself, "is a young man;
he will think nothing of this: a fellow at his age cares nothing for
money." George did care but little for the money, but he did care
about his father; and he understood the ways of the world well enough
to know that his father ought to have paid his own bill. He began
for the first time to experience something of that feeling which his
uncle so often expressed.

They started, too, with somewhat different ideas as to the purport
of their route. Sir Lionel wished to get to Constantinople, and was
content, for George's sake, to go by Damascus and Beyrout; but George
had to visit Ramah, and Gibeon, and Luz; to see the well of the woman
of Samaria at Sichem; to climb Mount Carmel, and to sleep at least
for a night within its monastery. Mount Tabor also, and Bethsaida,
and Capernaum, he must visit; he must bathe in the Sea of Galilee, as
he had already bathed in Jordan and the Dead Sea; Gadara he must see,
and Gergesa, and Chorazin; and, above all, he must stand wi