evil, one would have even now the means of showing, among so many Shahs, Khans, Rajahs, and Califs, many a Harmodius, Aristogeiton, Brutus, &c. who was able to pay for _his_ freedom (slaves contend for another's) even with the death of otherwise _good_ men and friends. _End of the graciously allowed Extra-leaf upon the greater Freedom enjoyed in Despotisms_. The extra-leaf and the Third Act are ended, but the latter was shorter and more serious than the former has been. Fourth Act.--By the act of dropping the curtain and raising it again, I have carried the world over from the shortest Act into the longest. To the Princess who now, as the German Imperial History announces, is sitting--came her compatriots in a body, who neither looked very honest nor very stupid, the chief-governess, the Court-confessor, the Court-Æsculapius, ladies and servants and all. This court-train does not say its farewell,--that has already been said privately,--but merely recapitulates it by a silent bow. The next step of the united Italians was from the middle chamber to--Italy. The Italians passed along before Sebastian's warehouse, and wiped off from their faces, whose hard parts were _en haut-relief_,--the German were _en bas-relief_, a nobler glimmer than that which courts communicate: Victor saw among so many accentuated eye-sockets the multiplied signs of the melancholy with which he himself was oppressed as he thought of the willing stranger-heart which remained behind alone under the frosty canopy of the German throne and clouds, torn away from her loved ways and scenes, brought before microscopic eyes, whose focal point scorches into tender feelings, and bound to a breast of ice.... When he thought of all this, and saw the compatriots, how they pocketed their feelings and packed themselves off, because they were not permitted to exchange another word with the Princess; and when he looked upon the mute, submissive form within there, who was not allowed to show any other _pearls_ than Oriental ones, (although the dream and the possession of the latter signifies Western ones, or of the evening land,--tears, I mean,) then did he wish, "Ah, that I could only, thou good creature, draw a treble veil over thy eye long enough for it to shed a tear!--might I only kiss that hand, so rudely set up at auction, as thy court-ladies are now doing, so as to inscribe with my tears upon the sold hand the nearness of a sympathizing heart." ...