"With thee delight is ever new,
With thee is life incessant bliss,"
believed what they sang all the more because they sang it.
"Now for raphael's great song," said Lucy, when they had finished the duet. "You do the 'heavy beasts'to perfection."
"That sounds complimentary," said Stephen, looking at his watch. "By Jove, it's nearly half-past one! Well,I can just sing this."
Stephen delivered with admirable ease the deep notes representing the tread of the heavy beasts; but when a singer has an audience of two, there is room for divided sentiments. Minny's mistress was charmed;but Minny, who had intrenched himself, trembling,in his basket as soon as the music began, found this thunder so little to his taste that he leaped out and scampered under the remotest chiffonnier, as the most eligible place in which a small dog could await the crack of doom.