In despair, Modesty sought still another mistress and this mistress one night he likewise left to fare forth into the world alone. But, turning in his flight, he saw again someone at his heels. Modesty, sitting sadly on a rock by the wayside, realized then that his wish for a lonely adventure was never to be fulfilled. For he must always, when he sallied forth from his mistress, take with him his mistress' lover. XXVIII THE GOOD FAIRY A fairy, in the form of a beautiful woman, came to a young man and whispered, "One wish will I grant you." The young man gazed into the deep eyes of the beautiful woman and, with thoughts playing upon her rare loveliness, breathed, "I wish for perfect happiness for all time!" And the fairy in the form of the beautiful woman granted him his wish. She left him. XXIX THE EXTERNAL FEMININE As the blonde young woman stepped from the swimming pool of the Turkish Bath, the attendant thought that never had she seen so fair and golden and beautiful a creature. Unable to contain her admiration, she spoke her thought. The beautiful blonde thanked her and said, "But you should have seen me at the Mi-Careme Ball as an African slave girl!" XXX FRATERNITE A woman, lying in the arms of her lover and who until now had spoken of many things but never of her husband, presently mentioned his name, and jested of him, and laughed. Her lover, who adored her, laughed with her and bending to her, kissed her passionately--hating her. XXXI REPUTATION The famous comedienne, suffering a sudden cramp, made a face. "How wonderfully she expresses the feeling of homesickness," observed the gentleman seated in E 10. "How wonderfully she expresses the feeling of wanderlust," observed the gentleman seated in M 7. XXXII THE LARIAT A lonely dreamer, dreaming under the poplars of a far hill, saw Love dancing in the bright valley and casting promiscuously about her a lariat of silk and roses. That he, too, might feel the soft caress of the lariat about him, the dreamer clambered down into the gay valley and there made eyes at Love. And Love, seeing, whirled her lariat high above her and deftly twirled it 'round the dreamer. And as in Love's hand the lariat of silk and roses fell about him and drew tighter and tighter about his arms and legs, the dreamer saw it slowly turn before his eyes into a band of solid steel. XXXIII THE ANALYST A little girl loved her doll dearly: it was to her very real and very human. One day a little girl living next door told her the doll was only filled with cotton. And the little girl cried. When the other little girl had gone, the little girl got out a scissors and determined to find out if her doll was, after all, not real and human, but only filled with cotton, as the little neighbour girl had said. The little girl cut her doll open, and found that it was filled with sawdust. XXXIV COUPLET Again Mephisto chuckled in anticipation.