Persia for silken carpets and

    painted pottery, and oto India to buy gauze and stained

    ivory, moonstones and bracelets of jade, sandal-wood and blue

    enamel and shawls of fine wool.

    But o  his

    coronation, tissued gold, and tudded crown,

    and tre s ro was

    of t o-night, as he lay back on his

    luxurious coucc pine was burning

    itself out on the

    famous artists of time, ted to

    tificers

    o toil nigo carry t, and t the whole

    o be searc heir

    tar of the

    cat of a King, and a smile played and

    lingered about  up  lustre his

    dark woodland eyes.

    After some time , and leaning against the

    carved pent t

    room.  tapestries representing the

    triumpy.  A large press, inlaid e and lapis-

    lazuli, filled one corner, and facing tood a curiously

    h lacquer panels of powdered and mosaiced gold,

    on s of Venetian glass, and a

    cup of dark-veined onyx.  Pale poppies he silk

    coverlet of tired hands

    of sleep, and tall reeds of fluted ivory bare up t canopy,

    from ufts of ostrice foam,

    to tted ceiling.  A laughing Narcissus

    in green bronze s he

    table stood a flat bo.

    Outside hedral, looming like a

    bubble over tinels pacing up

    and doy terrace by the river.  Far away, in an

    orcingale  perfume of jasmine

    came the open window.  he brushed his brown curls back from

    aki