Had it not been for that shark who was so luckily deluded last night, I should have been reduced to the necessity of stewing my friend the fat decurion's big boots.' 'They would have been savoury enough, I will warrant, after they had passed under your magical hand.' 'It is a comfort, certainly, to find that after all one did learn something useful in Alexandria! So I will even go forward at once, and employ my artistic skill.' 'Tell me first what it was about which I heard you just now soliloquising, as so hopeful a view of some matter or other ?' 'Honestly--if you will neither betray me to your son and daughter, nor consider me as having in anywise committed myself--it was Paul of Tarsus's notion of the history and destinies of our stiff-necked nation.
See what your daughter has persuaded me into reading!' And he held up a manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
'It is execrable Greek.

But it is sound philosophy, I cannot deny.

He knows Plato better than all the ladies and gentlemen in Alexandria put together, if my opinion on the point be worth having.' 'I am a plain soldier, and no judge on that point, sir.

He may or may not know Plato; but I am right sure that he knows God.' 'Not too fast,' said Raphael with a smile.

'You do not know, perhaps, that I have spent the last ten years of my life among men who professed the same knowledge ?' 'Augustine, too, spent the best ten years of his life among such; and yet he is now combating the very errors which he once taught.' 'Having found, he fancies, something better!' 'Having found it, most truly.