folds,..........flowed gracefully around her charming person.....A simple zone of artificial rosebuds.......blushing in a bed of virgin lilies,.......embraced her waist.....Small roguish curls wantoned o'er her forehead........heightening the beauty they half concealed.....Her allconquering smile, once more, darted its influence through my heart......and I gazed.....like one entranced.....on the light fairy form that blessed my sight.

Thus dangerously tempting.......the magic of a feeble lamp dawning on her revealed attractions.......the long separation we had suffered.........the silent hour of night.......all........produced the revival of a passion which my heart too eagerly cherished for this seducing creature, and, in an instant, changed the temperance of seven years into the most furious..........

I cannot find a word.......The highminded enthusiast.....who,......by zeal

and mortification, had near attained the perfection of an Angel.....in one short moment........was metamorphosed by this Circe into a vile Satyr.

Theoclea suffered what she could not avoid.......My rage was irresistible .......the door was barred on the outside.......more.......or louder.......resistance would only have made us the jest of Antioch.......It would besides have raised a calumny against our cause.......All this Theoclea saw, and wisely yielded to the momentary tempest...........She was, notwithstanding, seriously offended with me.....my conduct disconcerted her whole plan.

At length.....with much intreaty..... she was appeased.....We applied to the basket, and some flasks of excellent wine having enlivened our spirits...... former good-fellowship was restored .......and I requested she would explain to me the sort of miracle that had con

verted Anagallis.....the stage dancer.... into a devout sister of the great Prophet Kerinthus.

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I came hither" she replied, "unfold all these mysteries to you, "and to let you see by what means "the easy confidante of a voluptuous

lady's pleasures, has been trans"formed into the sublime personage you now behold.

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Truly, Proteus, I do not place much reliance on your wisdom...... "but I will obey my own heart, and "confide to your esteem.......which I "have ever believed sincere..........the "secrets of my soul."

She now paused.....and proposed..... as the only condition on which our future intimacy could exist.......that I should bind myself solemnly before Heaven, to consider her only as my sister, and adopt such sentiments as that character ought to inspire.

I naturally hesitated....but Theoclea was determined.....I made the vow.... and she began her narrative.

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"Kerinthus is a few years my elder ..........we lost our parents........who were Jews......when very young.... and in this helpless state were left "on the wide world......orphans...... " and in extreme indigence.

"Thus forlorn.....my brother and myself were induced to enter a "troop of itinerant dancers, and we "continued the profession for some years.

"As I approached womanhood, it "was my fate to captivate a certain .......very retired.......philosopher at "Athens.......named Hermias.......and though he........openly........affected merely to cultivate what he was pleased to call my brilliant talents "......he was not.....privately.....quite "so disinterested..........To his care,

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however, I owe all the advantages

" I

possess.....Every master was sum"moned who could embellish or im

prove me......and to this, my second father, I gratefully confess more "than a daughter's tenderness. "In a few years death......unhappily.......deprived me of this dear support........and having but little "fortune to bequeath me.....poverty, "in time, renewed its visits, and my only alternative was, resorting to my former occupation.

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"In this character I became an "universal favorite.....and the empire "of Anagallis......over all hearts...... "was unbounded.............But fickle "Fortune had been less kind to my brother......he was the sport of her capricious fancy.

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My good Hermias.......from his unfeigned regard from me....endea"voured from our first acquaintance