"Would we were masters now, if but to try

Their present lessons on our Pagan friends here,"

Said Juan,—swallowing a heart-burning sigh:

"Heaven help the scholar, whom his fortune sends here!"

"Perhaps we shall be one day, by and by,"

Rejoined the other, "when our bad luck mends here;

Meantime (yon old black eunuch seems to eye us)

I wish to G—d that somebody would buy us.