Chapter 27 GREEK MEETS GREEK.

"'I scorn,' quoth she, 'thou coxcomb silly,

Quarter or counsel from a foe.

If thou canst force me to it, do,'"

-Hudibras.

"I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,

And with the other fling it in thy face,

Than stoop to thee."

-Shakspeare.

Petronilla rode gayly along to the little bustling, half-village, half-city, Judestow