"I'm aworshipper of the great god Whim too, and close by here I have a little summer-house, full of books and fishing-lines and other childishness, where, when my whim is to be lonely, I come and play at solitude.

Each silentworshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

Here was the whole history of the situation in which Diana had descended too unexpectedly on herworshipper. It was mortifying.

The Worshipful and theWorshipper then passed on together until they parted, with many ceremonies, at the Worshipful's door; even then theWorshipper carried his hat under his arm, and gave his streaming white hair to the breeze.

"My name," replied the Woman, "is Truth; and I live in the desert in order to be near myworshippers when they are driven from among their fellows.

Shortly afterwards the Idol'sworshippers held a great religious ceremony at the base of his pedestal, and as a part of the rites the Missionary was roasted whole.

Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd ofworshippers in the suite of rooms without.

He had fallen into the hands of descendants of the ancient sunworshippers. His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony--the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings--to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.

Grose and Flora had passed into the church, the otherworshippers had followed, and we were, for the minute, alone among the old, thick graves.

As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of the fireworshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.

"Verily," replied the Pharisee; "let us hasten: for this generosity in the heathen is unwonted; and fickle-mindedness has ever been an attribute of theworshippers of Baal."

Moore, I could manage better; and when my father read "Lalla Rookh" to my mother I sat up to listen, and entered into all the woes of Iran in the story of the "FireWorshippers." I drew the line at the "Veiled Prophet of Khorassan," though I had some sense of the humor of the poet's conception of the critic in "Fadladeen." But I liked Scott's poems far better, and got from Ispahan to Edinburgh with a glad alacrity of fancy.