with particular earnestness. He had his younger brother beside him, and began to point out and explain all he knew with the fluent and gushing vanity of a cicerone. The boy appeared very attentive, yet understood nothing at all, but always wished at intervals to catch the water and the flames in order to convince himself that they were real, and not an illusion. While most of them were still occupied in this way, Sophie plied her father softly with a request that he would come with Frederica and