"Let us make a truce, for I announce to you the opportunity each to have whatever you wish.

We are to have at the proper moment, according to the Jews, a celestial visitation which will enable us to have what we most desire." "You announce it!" the girl scoffed indignantly.

"I have heard of that ever since I was born!" "I, too, have heard it," said Juventius.
"Well," said the unabashed athlete, "the Pharisee that brings Amaryllis her fruit is so full of it that he gets prophecies mixed with his prices and the patriarchs with his fruit.

He says that there are those that declare he is already in the city." "That he has been seen ?" Juventius asked, after a little silence.
"No; merely suspected.

They say that things go on in the Temple which seem to show that some resident of their Olympus already inhabits the air." "I saw Seraiah to-day," one of the women said in a low voice.
"Silent as ever?
Spotless as ever?
Mysterious as ever ?" the athlete asked.
The woman who had spoken shook her head at him as if alarmed.
"I can not bear to hear him ridiculed," she said.