"Come, Diana," said he: "come, my girl! thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; thou whom the pagans would have given as companion to the god Anubis, and Christians as friend to St. Roch;thou who art rushing into interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all Selenite dogs! come,Diana, come here."
Diana, flattered or not, advanced by degrees, uttering plaintive cries.