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Return of the young master-A first meeting in the chamber, a

second at table-The Judge's weighty lecture on courtesy-The

Chamberlain's political remarks on fashions-Beginning of the

quarrel over Bobtail and Falcon-Lamentations of the Seneschal-The

last Apparitor-Glance at the political conditions of Lithuania

and Europe at this period.

LITHUANIA, my country, thou art like health; how much thou

shouldst be prized only he can learn who has lost thee. To-day

thy beauty in all its splendour I see and describe, for I yearn

for thee.