Along whose bank the thin ghosts shiver,

The thin, wan ghosts that once were men,

But Tauris, isle of moor and fen;

Or, dimly traced by seaman’s ken,

The pale-cliffed Albion?”

Here she stopped, looked down, and busied herself with her work.


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CHAPTER XI.

CALLISTA’S PREACHING, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.