There it stands, hard by the tributaryless Nile, whose dark and violet-coloured waters form so indispensable an adjunct to the prosperity of the land.

The interrelationship of these factors, with specific reference to the plane of bigonial diameter, is indicated by the following proportion:

In the mornings hoar-frost lay thick upon the ground, and thin ice formed in currentless shallows and overlay the muskrat runways.

Lady Anne had too good taste for that. Still, any one who knew her not, might have thought, from the unusual care and pains bestowed on her appearance, that she herself meditated a conquest of their visiter.