As to the black-haired Christian girl--I have seen her many a time on board ship..." "Oh! she will take refuge with some fellow-Christians," remarked Porphyrius.

"Olympius told me all about her.

I know plenty of the same sort in the Church.

They fling away life and happiness as if they were apple-peelings to snatch at something which they believe to constitute salvation.

It is folly, madness! pure unmitigated madness! To have sung in the temple of the she-devil Isis with Gorgo and the other worshippers would have cost her her seat in Paradise.