man, a dwarf, and two women, who were different, but yet strangely and exactly alike. One of these last may be taken to be a special incarnation of evil. The visions may have occupied my mind for five minutes, possibly for only as many seconds. But in any case I caught so fleeting a glance at them that I am almost astonished that I was ever able to remember them, save as a confused and incoherent series of lightning flashes upon the scenery of a dark and unknown landscape.
1. Vox Clamantis.
"My daughter," quoth Father Paul to Stella, you may depend upon it that it is no sin to love. Was not the holy Peter himself a married man? We may be sure that he married where he loved, though, possibly, he may have wedded a shrew who soured him. That is my explanation of his quick temper."
"But when I think of Gerard all other thoughts fly out of my head; and I am always thinking of him. Is that right?"
