ance.

By and by they began to talk of schools, and of how much Aspatria had
learned; and so Brune regretted his own ignorance, and wished he had
been more attentive to his schoolmaster.

Sarah laughed at the wish. "A knowledge of Shakspeare and the musical
glasses and the Della Cruscans," she said, "is for foolish,
sentimental women. You can wrestle, and you can fight, and I suppose
you can make money, and perhaps even make love. Is there anything else
a soldier needs?"

"Colonel Jardine is very clever," continued Brune, regretfully; "and I
had a good schoolmaster--"

"Nonsense, Lieutenant!" said Sarah. "None of them are good. They all
spoil your eyes, and seek to lay a curse on you; that is the confusion
of languages."

"Still, I might have learned Latin."

"It was the speech of pagans and infidels."

"Or logic."

"Logic hath nothing to say in a good cause."

"Or philosophy."

"Philosophy is curiosity. Socrates was very properly put to death for
it."

They were all laughing together, when Sarah condemned Socrates, and
the evening passed like a happy dream away.

It was succeeded by weeks of the same delight. Aspatria soon learned
to love Sarah. She had never before had a woman friend on whom she
could rely and to whom she could open her heart. Sarah induced her to
speak of Ulfar, to tell her all her suffering and her plans and hopes,
and she gave her in return a true affection and a most sincere
sympathy. Nothing of the past that referred to Ulfar was left untold;
and as the two women sat together during the long summer days, they
grew very near to each other, and there was but one mind and one
desire between them.

So that when the time came for Aspatria to go back to Mrs. St.
Alban's, Sarah would not hear of their separation. "You have had
enough of book-learning," she said. "Remain with me. We will go to
Paris, to Rome, to Vienna. We will study through travel and society.
It is by rubbing yourself against all kinds of men and women that you
acquire the finest polish of life; and then when Ulfar comes back you
will be able to meet him upon all civilized grounds. And as for the
South Americans, we will buy all the books about them we can find.
Are they red or white or black, I wonder? Are they pagans or
Christians? I seem to remember that when I was at school I learned
that the Peruvians worshipped the sun."

"I think, Sarah, that they are all descendants of Spaniards; so they
must be Roman Catho