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 a 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 about, 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.

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