That photograph is enough to make my poor Sarah turn in her grave." "Why ?" asked Bickley; "seeing that wide seas roll between you and this dusky Venus.

Also I thought that according to your Hebrew legend sin came in with bark garments." "You should search the Scriptures, Bickley," I broke in, "and cultivate accuracy.

It was fig-leaves that symbolised its arrival.

The garments, which I think were of skin, developed later." "Perhaps," went on Bickley, who had turned the page, "she" (he referred to the late Mrs.Bastin) "would have preferred her thus," and he held up another illustration of the same woman.
In this the native belle appeared after conversion, clad in broken-down stays--I suppose they were stays--out of which she seemed to bulge and flow in every direction, a dirty white dress several sizes too small, a kind of Salvation Army bonnet without a crown and a prayer-book which she held pressed to her middle; the general effect being hideous, and in some curious way, improper.
"Certainly," said Bastin, "though I admit her clothes do not seem to fit and she has not buttoned them up as she ought.

But it is not of the pictures so much as of the letterpress with its false and scandalous accusations, that I complain." "Why do you complain ?" asked Bickley.