"He is a man what I do not love."
"No, but Mr. Herder, I mean, don't you love other things very much — animals, and such things? You have so much to do with them."
"No — I have no love to spare for animals," he said with a grave face.
"Don't you love birds and animals, that you are always after and busy with?"
"No," said the naturalist, — "I do not love them — I love what is back of all that — not the animals. I keep my love for men."
"Do you think you have any more in that direction, for keeping it from the others?" said Elizabeth.
"I do not understand —"
"Do you think you love men any better because you don't give animals any love at all?"
"I do love some animals," said Mr. Herder. "I had a horse once, when I lived in Germany, that I did love. I loved him so well, that when a man did insult my horse, I made him fight me."
Rose exclaimed; Elizabeth smiled significantly; and Winthrop remarked,