They are administered a dose of poison by secret societies

necessary. The chief thing still remains. You came to teach the

sculptor that his work is but dust and clay only, an outward form made

of a material that decays, and that what we should seek to obtain is

the ethereal essence of mind and spirit. Poor Kaela! our life was

but as a meeting by the way-side; in yonder world, where we shall know

each other from a union of mind, we shall be but mere acquaintances."

"That was not a loving speech," said Sophy, "nor spoken like a

Christian. In a future state, where there is neither marrying nor