ing off, one by one, the
weary, worn-out men and women,--have taken up and borne aloft,
as if on hands and shoulders, the one chance human body that is
brought in to land, and the long spur, from which man's dancing
cordage wastes by degrees, find yields its place to long, green
streamers, much like those that clung to this tall, taper tree
when it stood in the Northern forest.

"These waves have rolled their breasts about amid the wrecks
and weeds of the hot stream that comes up many thousands of
miles out of the Gulf of Mexico, as the great Mississippi goes
down into it, and by-and-by these waves will move, all numb and
chilled, among the mighty icebergs and ice-fields that must be
brought down from the poles."

* * * * *

"She asked, 'Have you given up being a priest, Mr. Urston?'

"'Yes!' he answered, in a single word, looking before him, as
it were along his coming life, like a quoit-caster, to see how
far the uttered word would strike; then, turning to her, and in
a lower voice, added, 'I've left that, once and forever.'"

* * * * *

"He stood still with his grief; and, as Mr. Wellon pressed his
honest, hard hand, he lifted to his pastor one of those
childlike looks that only come out on the face of the true man,
that has grown, as oaks grow, ring around ring, adding each
after-age to the childhood that has never been lost, but has
been kept innermost. This fisherman seemed like one of those
that plied their trade, and were the Lord's disciples, at the
Sea of Galilee, eighteen hundred years ago. The very flesh and
blood inclosing such a nature keep a long youth through life.
Witness the genius, (who is only the more thorough man,) poet,
painter, sculptor, finder-out, or whatever; how fresh and fair
such an one looks out from under his old age! Let him be
Christian, too, and he shall look as if--shedding this
outward--the inward being would walk forth a glorified one."

* * * * *

"As he mentioned his fruitless visits, a startling, most
repulsive leer just showed itself in Ladford's face; but it
disappeared as suddenly and wholly as a monster that has come
up, horrid and hideous, to the surface of the sea, and then has
sunk again, bodily