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 planet. There is more of the foundation of facts in Crusoe, just as I said, and therefore as a work of fiction, John Bunyan's work is the most romantic."

"Stick to it Rosa, like a hero, perched up there like a queen on a throne. I've just thought of a good sketch of yourself as the heroine of a story. Imagine yourself so original and independent, you long for some sequestered spot where you will be subject to no control, and therefore set sail for some lonely island in the Pacific, where you can reign with such undisputed sway that no human being dare approach you."

"Why Walter, I would like to know whether you meant that all as a joke or half in earnest. You do not really mistake me so much as to suppose I spurn all control? It is one of the happiest sensations of my life to be controlled as I often am by you, and if you did not know it then here is my confession."

"I think Walter understands you Rosa, but I am glad to see you come out with so much frankness and arrest even the least suspicion of a misunderstanding. I hope you will act on that principle through life, and not allow yourself to harbor in secret an unkind feeling towards another which might be at once explained away, or shown to be without a cause. How many cases of hatred and ill will, and their still more sinister sister, revenge, might hate been avoided if, instead of allowing the passions to add fuel to the flame, by suggesting a thousand things to the imagination, that had not a shadow of truth, reason and judgment had been followed by going to the source