No More Learning

i. e. If Lycius had lived longer his experience might have
either contradicted or corroborated this saying.

PAGE 28. l. 27. _Deafening_, in the unusual sense of making inaudible.

ll. 27-8. _came a thrill Of trumpets. _ From the first moment that the
outside world makes its claim felt there is no happiness for the man
who, like Lycius, is living a life of selfish pleasure.

PAGE 29. l. 39. _passing bell.
_ Either the bell rung for a condemned man
the night before his execution, or the bell rung when a man was dying
that men might pray for the departing soul.

PAGE 31. ll. 72-4. _Besides . . . new. _ An indication of the selfish
nature of Lycius's love.

l. 80. _serpent. _ See how skilfully this allusion is introduced and our
attention called to it by his very denial that it applies to Lamia.

PAGE 32. l. 97.