You confess that you are very fond of gold.

Now, how is it that you don't barter your virtue for gold sometimes?
I am a philosopher, Ursula, and like to know everything.

You must be every now and then exposed to great temptation, Ursula: for you are of a beauty calculated to captivate all hearts.

Come, sit down and tell me how you are enabled to resist such temptation as gold and fine clothes ?" "Well, brother," said Ursula, "as you say you mean no harm, I will sit down beside you, and enter into discourse with you; but I will uphold that you are the coolest hand that I ever came nigh, and say the coolest things." And thereupon Ursula sat down by my side.
"Well, Ursula, we will, if you please, discourse on the subject of your temptations.

I suppose that you travel very much about, and show yourself in all kinds of places ?" "In all kinds, brother; I travels, as you say, very much, attends fairs and races, and enters booths and public-houses, where I tells fortunes, and sometimes dances and sings." "And do not people often address you in a very free manner ?" "Frequently, brother; and I give them tolerably free answers." "Do people ever offer to make you presents?
I mean presents of value, such as.