No love for me actuates your movements, else you would have spared me the suffering of this hour." "You defy me, then ?" Florence had turned away, and heeded not his question; but Mary, clasping her hands, looked appealingly in his face; "Oh, Padre, by the tie which you declare exists between yourself and Florry--for the sake of your lost parent--do not put your threat in execution.

Spare an unprotected orphan.

You will not harm your sister!" "Know you not, girl, that when a Jesuit priest takes the oath of his order, he tears his heart from his breast and lays it at the feet of his superior?
Appeal not to ties of relationship: we repudiate them, and pity is unknown among us." With a shudder Mary joined her cousin, and rapidly and in perfect silence they retraced their steps homeward.

When they reached their gate, Mary would have opened it, but her cousin, taking her hand, led the way to their old seat beside the river.
Florence seated herself as near the water as possible, and then tightly clasping the hand she held, asked in a voice of suppressed emotion; "Tell me, Mary, is there a purgatory ?" "No, Florry; I think there is less foundation for that doctrine than any advanced by your church." "Mary, you speak truth, and all that you say I can implicitly believe.
Tell me what grounds support the theory ?" "You remember the words of our Saviour.

'All sin shall be forgiven, save blasphemy of the Holy Ghost; that shall not be forgiven, either in this world or the next.' Now Papists argue in this way: Then other sins can be forgiven in another world; there is no sin in heaven, in hell no forgiveness, consequently, there must exist a middle place, or, in other words, a purgatory.