And have I not reason to be wary, when in my boyhood, my own sire was burnt for his temerity; and in this very isle?
Just Oro! it was done in the name of Alma,--what wonder then, that, at times, I almost hate that sound.

And from those flames, they devoutly swore he went to others,--horrible fable!" Said Mohi: "Do you deny, then, the everlasting torments ?" "'Tis not worth a denial.

Nor by formally denying it, will I run the risk of shaking the faith of, thousands, who in that pious belief find infinite consolation for all they suffer in Mardi." "How ?" said Media; "are there those who soothe themselves with the thought of everlasting flames ?" "One would think so, my lord, since they defend that dogma more resolutely than any other.

Sooner will they yield you the isles of Paradise, than it.

And in truth, as liege followers of Alma, they would seem but right in clinging to it as they do; for, according to all one hears in Maramma, the great end of the prophet's mission seems to have been the revealing to us Mardians the existence of horrors, most hard to escape.