to us.'

'But what if their own were taken out of the way?'

'They might come to us for want of better amusement .... devil and
all. Well--if I could get a fair hold of the two first, I would
take the third into the bargain, and see whatcould be done with him.
But never, while these lecture-rooms last--these Egyptian chambers
of imagery--these theatres of Satan, where the devil transforms
himself into an angel of light, and apes Christian virtue, and
bedizens his ministers like ministers of righteousness, as long as
that lecture-room stands and the great and the powerful flock to it,
to learn excuses for their own tyrannies and atheisms, so long will
the kingdom of God be trampled under foot in Alexandria; so long
will the princes of this world, with their gladiators, and
parasites, and money-lenders, be masters here, and not the bishops
and priests of the living God.'

It was now Peter's turn to be silent; and as the two, with their
little knot of district-visitors behind them, walk moodily along the
great esplanade which overlooked the harbour, and then vanish
suddenly up some dingy alley into the crowded misery of the sailors'
quarter, we will leave them to go about their errand of mercy, and,
like fashionable people, keep to the grand parade, and listen again
to our two fashionable friends in the carved and gilded curricle
with four white blood-horses.

'A fine sparkling breeze outside the Pharos, Raphael--fair for the
wheat-ships too.'