Benedick's. Love-making and Armenian do not go together, and in the
colloquy that ensued, Belle could not feel assured that the man who
proposed to conjugate the verb "to love" in Armenian, was master of his
intentions in plain English. It was even so. The man of tongues lacked
speech wherewith to make manifest his passion; the vocabulary of the word-
master was insufficient to convince the workhouse girl of one of the
plainest meanings a man can well have. From the banter of the man of
learning the queen of the dingle sought refuge in a precipitate flight.
Almost simultaneously the word-master, albeit with reluctance, decided
that it was high time to give over his "mocking and scoffing." When he
returned with this resolve to the dingle, Isopel Berners had quitted it,
never to return.

Yet ever and anon that splendid and pathetic figure will cross the sky
line of his mental vision--and of ours. "Then the image of Isopel
Berners came into my mind," and the thought "how I had lost her for ever,
and how happy I might have been with her in the New World."




DWELLERS IN THE DINGLE,
AND SOME OTHERS.


MEN.


LAVENGRO, _the autobiographer_, _scholar and philologist_ (Lavengro=_word-
master_); _known among the road-faring folk as the Romany rye_, _or young