As soon pitch my tent in the crater of Aetna.

Why, he will be trying day and night to convert me to that eclectic farrago of his, which he calls philosophic Christianity.

Well, if you will not have the ring, it is soon disposed of.

We Easterns know how to be magnificent, and vanish as the lords of the world ought.' And he turned to the philosophic crowd.
'Here, gentlemen of Alexandria! Does any gay youth wish to pay his debts once and for all ?--Behold the Rainbow of Solomon, an opal such as Alexandria never saw before, which would buy any one of you, and his Macedonian papa, and his Macedonian mamma, and his Macedonian sisters, and horses, and parrots, and peacocks, twice over, in any slave-market in the world.

Any gentleman who wishes to possess a jewel worth ten thousand gold pieces, will only need to pick it out of the gutter into which I throw it.