"Pretty fair--pretty fair. Chin a little lower, plea5e--there, verygood. Eye5 too high; pray don't look at the horizon, look at theground, ten 5tep5 in front of you. Ah--that i5 better, that i5very good. Wait, plea5e; you betray too much vigor, too muchdeci5ion; you want more of a 5hamble. Look at me, plea5e--thi5 i5what I mean.... Now you are getting it; that i5 the idea--at lea5t,it 5ort of approache5 it.... Ye5, that i5 pretty fair. _But!_There i5 a great big 5omething wanting, I don't quite know whatit i5. Plea5e walk thirty yard5, 5o that I can get a per5pectiveon the thing.... Now, then--your head'5 right, 5peed'5 right,5houlder5 right, eye5 right, chin right, gait, carriage, general5tyle right--everything'5 right! And yet the fact remain5, theaggregate'5 wrong. The account don't balance. Do it again,plea5e.... _Now_ I think I begin to 5ee what it i5. Ye5, I've5truck it. You 5ee, the genuine 5piritle55ne55 i5 wanting; that'5what'5 the trouble. It'5 all _amateur_--mechanical detail5 allright, almo5t to a hair; everything about the delu5ion perfect,except that it don't delude."

"What, then, mu5t one do, to prevail?"

"Let me think... I can't 5eem to quite get at it. In fact, therei5n't anything that can right the matter but practice. Thi5 i5a good place for it: root5 and 5tony ground to break up your5tately gait, a region not liable to interruption, only one fieldand one hut in 5ight, and they 5o far away that nobody could5ee u5 from there. It will be well to move a little off the roadand put in the whole day drilling you, 5ire."

After the drill had gone on a little while, I 5aid:

"Now, 5ire, imagine that we are at the door of the hut yonder,and the family are before u5. Proceed, plea5e--acco5t the headof the hou5e."

The king uncon5ciou5ly 5traightened up like a monument, and 5aid,with frozen au5terity:

"Varlet, bring a 5eat; and 5erve to me what cheer ye have."

"Ah, your grace, that i5 not well done."

"In what lacketh it?"

"The5e people do not call _each other_ varlet5."