onsented to her proposal.
Accordingly, after breakfast, he left Rollo to engage a carriage and
take Mrs. Gray and the others to the museum, while he went to find his
two friends, the students, at another hotel, where they were lodging.
They were all to meet in the hall of the museum at ten o'clock.

At half past nine Rollo had a nice carriage at the door. Josie sat in
the carriage while Rollo went up to Mrs. Gray's room to tell her that it
was ready. Rosie, who was still far from being strong, leaned on Rollo's
arm coming down stairs.

"I am very glad that you are going to have the care of us to-day,
instead of Mr. George," said she.

"So am I," said Rollo. "I am very glad indeed."

"I don't care any thing at all about his old learned inscriptions," said
Rosie.

"Nor do I much," said Rollo. "Still they are very curious, when once we
understand them."

"Perhaps they may be," said Rosie, "but I don't care about them. What I
want is, to see the pretty things."

"Yes," said Rollo, "and I will show you all the pretty things I can
find."

Rollo assisted the two ladies into the carriage, and then, after getting
in himself, he ordered the coachman to drive to the museum. The way lay
first through one or two open squares, bordered with churches, porticos,
and palaces, and then through a long, straight street, called the
_Toledo_. This is the principal street of shops in Naples, and is said
to be the most populous and crowded street in Europe. It was so thronged
with people every where, in the middle of the street as well as upon the
sidewalks, that the carriage could scarcely pass along.

At length, however, it arrived at the museum. There was a spacious stone
platform before the building, with a broad flight of stone steps
ascending to it. Rollo assisted his party to descend from the carriage,
and then he stopped to pay the coachman, while they went up the steps.
Rollo joined them on the platform.

The doors of the museum building, which were immensely large, were open,
but they were guarded by a soldier, who walked back and forth before the
entrance, carrying his gun with the bayonet set. Rollo paid no attention
to him, but walked directly in. Josie walked by his side, and Mrs. Gray
and Rosie followed them.

"Now," said Rollo, "we must wait here until uncle George comes."

The hall into which they had entered was very large and very lofty, and
the columns and staircases that were to be seen here and there adorni