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ARIADNE. 59garden,Isaw a messenger take her a greatcasket; she said not one word, but she threwit on the ground, and the lid of it burst open,and pearls and other jewels rolled out,and shetrampled on them and trod them into the earth;— Inever had seenher like that. The man whohad brought them was frightened, and gatheredthem up and hurried away. The man at thegatelaughed, and toldhim she was a fool.'' That is how the summer wentby; and frommy garretIcould always see her, and allthe long moonlit nights she would — pace upand clown there under those trees: and thelilacs grew shrivelled and black. Then all atonceImissed her. Days went by; at lastIasked; the man at the gate laughed again:' she is gone,' said he, ' she is alovely creature,but not humanIthink; he wrote to her, butshe did not understand; she is gone away,somewhere or other,you see she did not understand— as if " it were not always so.' What isalways so?The Greek lad 'sighed, and drew his breathwearily; then again took up the thread of his