And yet I would fain see it once more as I beheld it this morn when day arose upon it for the last time, from the summit of Saint Paul's.

It looked so beautiful that my heart smote me, and tears started to my eyes, to think that those goodly habitations, those towers, temples, halls, and palaces, should so soon be levelled with the dust." "Hear what the prophet saith," rejoined Hubert.

"'Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic.

Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, and will bring thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all those that behold thee.'" Solomon Eagle flung himself upon his knees, and his example was imitated by the others.

Having recited a prayer in a low deep tone, he arose, and stretching out his arms, solemnly denounced the city.