We have neither of us an affection or a hope that can bind us to the things of earth.

Our hearts look both towards heaven; our expectations are only from on high!' 'Do not set your hopes too firmly on your child.

Remember how the nobles of Rome have destroyed the household I once had, and tremble for your own.' 'I have no fear for my daughter; she is cared for in my absence by one who is vowed to aid me in my labours for the Church.

It is now nearly a year since I first met Ulpius, and from that time forth he has devoted himself to my service and watched over my child.' 'Who is this Ulpius, that you should put such faith in him ?' 'He is a man of age like mine.

I found him, like me, worn down by the calamities of his early life, and abandoned, as I had once been, to the delusions of the pagan gods.