We 'll try it!—Not that we can venture much.

Her confidence we've lost forever: Berthold's

Is all to gain.

Gui. To-night, then, venture we!

Yet—if lost confidence might be renewed?

Gau. Never in noble natures! With the base ones,—

Twist off the crab's claw, wait a smarting-while,

And something grows and grows and gets to be

A mimic of the lost joint, just so like

As keeps in mind it never, never will