waiting for him. They placed him in the midst of them, and with much

pomp and stateliness they conducted him into another room, where there

was a sumptuous table laid with but four covers. The duchess and the

duke came out to the door of the room to receive him, and with them

a grave ecclesiastic, one of those who rule noblemen's houses; one

of those who, not being born magnates themselves, never know how to

teach those who are how to behave as such; one of those who would have

the greatness of great folk measured by their own narrowness of