"Satan hath laid his hands upon her; but I will contend for her, even as did Michael of old for the body of Moses.
Mary, sister Mary, for the love of Christ, answer me." No sound came back from the canoes, which glided like phantoms, noiselessly and swiftly, through the still waters of the river.
"The enemy hath prevailed," said Mr.Ward; "two women were grinding at my mill, the one is taken and the other is left.

Let us go home, my friends, and wrestle in prayer against the Tempter." The heretic and his orthodox bride departed into the thick wilderness, under the guidance of Passaconaway, and in a few days reached the Eldorado of the heretic and the persecuted, the colony of Roger Williams.

Passaconaway, ever after, remained friendly to the white men.
As civilization advanced he retired before it, to Pennacook, now Concord, on the Merrimac, where the tribes of the Naumkeags, Piscataquas, Accomentas, and Agawams acknowledged his authority.
THE OPIUM EATER.

(1833.) Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving from its lowest depths of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me! Here was a panacea, a pharmakon nepenthes for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages: happiness might be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket .-- DEQUINCEY's "Confessions of an Opium Eater." HE was a tall, thin personage, with a marked brow and a sunken eye.
He stepped towards a closet of his apartment, and poured out a few drops of a dark liquid.

His hand shook, as he raised the glass which contained them to his lips; and with a strange shuddering, a nervous tremor, as if all the delicate chords of his system were unloosed and trembling, he turned away from his fearful draught.
He saw that my eye was upon him; and I could perceive that his mind struggled desperately with the infirmity of his nature, as if ashamed of the utter weakness of its tabernacle.