(Side by side, both rise up through the air, slowly. Anthony, clinging to the cross, watches them rise. They disappear.)

[1] Agape.—Love-feast of the primitive Christians.

[2] John XVI: 12.—T.

[3] See [note] at end.

[4] Masheim gives Achamoth. I prefer to remain faithful to the orthography given by Flaubert.

[5] The French text gives mes pères not nos pères. Elxai, or Elkhai, who established his sect in the reign of Trajan, was a Jew.

[6] See [note].

[7] The banyan is a fig-tree—the Ficus indicus.—Trans.

[8] Readers may remember Longfellow's exquisite poem "Helena of Tyre."