THE COUNTRY.


nists. To be sure) having won her, the old
adventurous spirit came back, and he was off
again, -for one must pursue something,--
only remembering her beauty and her charm
long enough to sigh a little when the stars
came out and the sea was smooth, and swear
he would return again; meanwhile leaving
such small things as seeds, or plans for the
conversion of the barbarians, to his men.
 He did not sigh so often, it is said, when he
found, toward the North, that race of Indians
whose queen was a woman, and beautiful. A
man were surely ungracious to sigh when a
lady loosens from her own brown throat a rope
of pearls, each one gleaming like a star in a
mist, and puts it about his neck. Beside, if
the Lady Isabella shall one day wear the royal
gift, why not, like a gallant gentleman, -if an
absent husband, bend a little lower and kiss
the bronze cheek? For one must fancy that "the
brave, the virtuous, the magnanimous Captain
Don Fernando De Soto" swore within himself,
as he looked into the languishing eyes of the
dark Princess, that he would one day twist