Then said the regent, I will tell you what are the laws of this country in regard to murder.

"My, senior lady in waiting," said the regent in assent to this conjecture.

"Monsieur, the wine has turned your head," said the regent scornfully.

"I entreat thee," said the Regent, approaching Rameses, "to excuse me.

"That is, at the beginning, impossible, Monsieur L'as," said the regent.

"Very well, then," said the Regent at last, "call her after her mother.

"Good," said the Regent to her maid-servants, "nothing is needed.

"Who are you?" said the Regent, putting on the stern look of her father.

'Read it to me,' said the Regent.

"Her youth did not excuse her foolishness," said the Regent, glaring down his narrow nose.

"Infanta!" said the Regent of Samsam, shaking a bony finger as if to scold her.

"B-r-r!" said the regent, extending her hands toward him as if to repel an assault.

'There, father,' said the Regent, 'it is your doing; it is you that have made her a firebrand.

"For which I daily pray," said the regent.

"It will not do," said the Regent.

"Go on, then, sir," said the regent.