Note 194 — Chapter VII

This is quite after the manner of Asiatic despots—and the deity Indra is here nothing better—and at once recalls a similar incident, which cost a good man his head: when the daughter of Herodias danced before King Herod, he was so charmed with that young light-skirt’s performance that he said to her: “Ask whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee” (Mark vi, 22).