His one care is to heap up treasure for to-day; the morrow may look after itself.

But let us return to the point from which we started.

Do you think in earnest of voyaging to the Bosporus ?' 'I should only choose a hazard so desperate were it the sole chance that remained of recovering Veranilda.' 'Wait, then, yet awhile.

But take my counsel, and do not wait in Rome.' To this advice Basil gave willing ear.

Since he had heard from Pelagius that he was free to quit the city, he was all but resolved to be gone.
One thought alone detained him; he still imagined that Heliodora might have means such as she professed of aiding him in his search, and that, no matter how, he might subdue her will to his own.