"Softly, softly, my blessed angel!" cried Pipa, following her with outstretched arms as if she were a baby taking its first steps.

" "Thank you," said Angel, somewhat coldly.

Satan may worry women if he will, For he was but an angel ere he fell, But Ibefore I fellI was a man.

While in his stead, the Heavens above Are shaded with a silver light, So soft, so purethat angels rove, To guard from evil those who love The God, who made all bright.

"She is an angel, Stukely," said the good doctor, pressing my hands, and passing on.

ABADDON, the bottomless pit, or the angel thereof.

Her attitude, with outspread armsher face, not indeed a young or lovely face, but something far better, sublime and powerful in the expression of rapturethe divinely beautiful and childish, yet devout, unearthly little angels around herthe grand apostles belowand the splendour of colour over allrender this picture an enchantment at once to the senses and the imagination; to me the effect was like music.

The two ladders are flanked by representations of the Apostles, whilst below the gable is the figure of our Lord, with adoring angels beneath.

Verily the angel Gabriel appeared to him, commanding him to "arise and warn."