never gaze upon a woman, and walk abroad only ever with eyes fixed upon the ground; for however chaste and watchful one may be, the error of a single moment is enough to make one lose eternity.

Clarimonde.

I started to find it, but fancy my astonishment when I beheld, instead of the mummy's foot I had purchased the evening before, the little green paste idol left in its place by the Princess Hermonthis!

The mummy's foot.

The Sardians, indignant at the death of Candaules, threatened revolt; but the oracle of Delphi having declared in favour of Gyges, who had sent thither a vast number of silver vases and six golden cratera of the value of thirty talents, the new king maintained his seat on the throne of Lydia, which he occupied for many long years, lived happily, and never showed his wife to any one, knowing too well what it cost.

King Candaules.