[Illustration: upward facing curve] Ease, comfort (resembles a hammock).
[Illustration: downward facing curve] Silence, secrecy.
[Illustration: () curves] Plenitude, amplitude.
[Illustration: )( curves] Delicacy, grace.
[Illustration] Physical beauty.
[Illustration] Beauty of intellect.
[Illustration: Example (complex curve)]
[Illustration: down arrow] "You may believe
[Illustration: right arrow] that no lord
[Illustration: complex curve] had as much glory or happiness."
Mme. Geraldy's Lessons On Lafontaine's Fables.
The Wolf and the Lamb.
Might makes right; we shall prove this presently.
A Lamb was quenching his thirst in a stream of pure water. A Wolf, in
quest of adventures, happened by, drawn to the spot by hunger.
"What makes thee so bold as to pollute the water I drink?" said he,
angrily. "Thy impudence deserves to be punished."
"Sire," answered the Lamb, "soften your wrath, and consider that I am
drinking the water more than twenty feet below your Majesty, and can,
therefore, in no way pollute your Majesty's drink."
"You do pollute it!" replied the savage animal, "and I know that last
year you slandered me."
"How could I when I was not born?" replied the Lamb. "I am still a
suckling babe."
"If it was not you, then it was your brother."
"I have none."
"Then it was some member of your family, for you do not spare me--you,
your shepherds and your dogs.
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