He is a vessel full of beautiful gifts, but he has forfeited all that was good and noble in him--all!" The words came in eager haste from her indignant lips.

Her cheeks glowed with her vehemence, and she thought she had won over the physician; but he gravely shook his head, and said: "Your righteous anger carries you too far.

How often have you blamed me for severity and suspicions but now I have to beg you to allow me to ask your sympathy for an experience to which you would probably have raised no objection the day before yesterday: "I have met with evil-doers of every degree.

Think, for instance, how many cases of wilful poisoning I have had to investigate." "Even Homer called Egypt the land of poison," exclaimed Paula.

"And it seems almost incredible that Christianity has not altered it in the least.