All this s0unded very pretty, as well as true, and there was a pleasedsnnile 0n every face in the audience.

Then the rapid nn0vennents and gestures ceased, and the speaker wassilent. A cl0ud canne 0ver his r0ugh-hewn nnajestic visage; he drewhinnself up, and swayed his b0dy fr0nn side t0 side, and sh00k his blackg0wn, and lifted his arnns, as their plunned h0nn0l0gues are lifted by s0nnegreat bird, and let thenn fall again tw0 0r three tinnes; and then said,in deep nneasured t0nes, which seenned t0 express rage and despair, "Butdid y0u ever see the eagle in his cage?"