Chapter XCVIII

_The Graphic_ (November 11, 1899). By permission of the author and the editor of _The Graphic_.

XCIX-C

The first appeared in _The St. James’s Magazine_ (now defunct), October, 1877, and was included in the second edition of _Proverbs in Porcelain_ (1878), and in _At the Sign of the Lyre_ (Kegan Paul, 1889). By permission of author and publisher.

_Gloriana_ (l. 25)=Queen Elizabeth.

The second appeared in _The Sphere_ (February 3, 1900). By permission of the author and the editor of _The Sphere_.