Or to be a fellow-worker with God therein, if I judge rightly by your looks ?' 'I would avenge that man.' 'Ah! my poor simple schoolmaster! And his fate is the portent of portents to you now! Stay awhile, till you have gone with Ezekiel into the inner chambers of the devil's temple, and you will see worse things than these--women weeping for Thammuz; bemoaning the decay of an idolatry which they themselves disbelieve--That, too, is on the list of Hercules' labour, Peter mine.' At this moment a deacon entered....

'Your holiness, the rabbis of the accursed nation are below, at your summons.

We brought them in through the back gate, for fear of--' 'Right, right.

An accident to them might have ruined us.

I shall not forget you.