CHAPTER VI.
URSUS AS TUTOR, AND URSUS AS GUARDIAN.
Ursus added,—
"Some of these days I will play them a nasty trick. I will marry them."
Ursus taught Gwynplaine the theory of love. He said to him,—
"Do you know how the Almighty lights the fire called love? He places the woman underneath, the devil between, and the man at the top. A match—that is to say, a look—and behold, it is all on fire."
"A look is unnecessary," answered Gwynplaine, thinking of Dea.
And Ursus replied,—
"Booby! Do souls require mortal eyes to see each other?"
Ursus was a good fellow at times. Gwynplaine, sometimes madly in love with Dea, became melancholy, and made use of the presence of Ursus as a guard on himself. One day Ursus said to him,—