Volume II Part 50 (2/2)

Genius, genius?--a thousand years hence, to be a household-word?--I?-- Loled fool!-- Lombardo immortal?--Ha, ha, Lo the tops of palreat Lombardo saith; and thus; and thus; and thus:-- thus saith he--illustrious Loreat countryreat Lorave, and bury thyself!”

ABRAZZA--He was very funny, then, at ti jolly! And from my nethermost soul, would to Oro, thou could'st but feel one touch of that jolly woe! It would appall thee, ht Worshi+pful lord Abrazza!

ABRAZZA (_to Media_)--My dear lord, his teeth are marvelously white and sharp: sorin thus? It was infernal!

MEDIA--Ah! that's Azzageddi But, prithee, Babbalanja, proceed

BABBALANJA--Your Highness, even in his cal his work He confesses, that it ever see within, which, do what he would, he could not completely transfer ”My canvas was ss that cahness, which forced Lombardo, ere his ell done, to take it off his easel, and send it to be multiplied ”Oh, that I was not thus spurred!” cried he; ”but like many another, in its very childhood, this poor child of et bread for its sire”

ABRAZZA (_with a sigh_)--Alas, the poor devil! But ant in him to talk to all Mardi at that lofty rate--Did he think himself a God?

BABBALANJA--He hiht; but, like all others, he was created by Oro to some special end; doubtless, partly answered in his Koztanza

MEDIA--And now that Lo life, lives after him--what think the present company of it? Speak, my lord Abrazza! Babbalanja! Mohi! Yoo his sandal with his scepter__)--I never read it

BABBALANJA (_looking upward_)--It ritten with a divine intent

Mohi (_stroking his beard_)--I never hugged it in a corner, and ignored it before Mardi

Yoo_)--And I have read it through nine ti up_)--Ah, Lolad!

CHAPTER LXXVII They Sup

There see sinister, hollow, heartless, about Abrazza, and that green-and-yellow, evil-starred crown that he wore

But why think of that? Though we like not so in the curve of one's brow, or distrust the tone of his voice; yet, let us aith suspicions if we may, and make a jolly comrade of him, in the name of the Gods Miserable! thriceover and over one's character in hisby nice avoirdupois, the pros and the cons of his goodness and badness For we are all good and bad Give e as all Asia; and unless a ht, account hiht, in his right regal hall, King Abrazza received us And in ood time a fine supper was spread

Now, in thus nocturnally regaling us, our host arranted by ave suppers; the God Woden gave suppers; the Hindoo deity Brahave suppers:-- chiefly venison and gauished ave suppers; Montezuave suppers; the Jews' Passovers were suppers; the Pharaohs gave suppers; Julius Caesar gave suppers:--and rare ones they were; Great Poabalus, surna of old, that King Pluto gave suppers; so tip-top couls and Great Khans; Grand Laers:--Ta with Bonaparte; Antiochus with Soly Pilate; Se bon-bons with bloody Mary, and her na three to one with the Council of Ten; and Sultans, Satraps, Viziers, Hetes, Dauphins, Infantas, Incas, and Caciques looking on

Again: at Arbela, the conqueror of conquerors, conquering son of Olympia by Jupiter hionus, Antipater, and the rest--to join him at ten, pm, in the Temple of Belus; there, to sit down to a victorious supper, off the gold plate of the assyrian High Priests How ht!--feeling grand and lofty as the Himmalehs; yea, all Babylon nodded her towers in his soul!

Spread, heaped up, stacked with good things; and redolent of citrons and grapes, hilling round tall vases of wine; and here and there, waving with fresh orange-boughs, alealorious board showed like so; and jolly Bacchus, like a recruit with aback as he fires off the bottles of vivacious chane