The Master Christian

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But, said the Cardinal half aloud, with the gentle dawning of a tender smile brightening the fine firm curve of his lips, – it is not the end! The end here, no doubt; – but the beginning – _there! _ He raised his eyes devoutly, and instinctively touched the silver crucifix hanging by its purple ribbon at his breast. The orange-red glow of the sun encompassed him with fiery rings, as though it would fain consume his thin, black-garmented form after the fashion in which flames consumed the martyrs of old, – the worn figures of mediaeval saints in their half-broken niches stared down upon him stonily, as though they would have said, – So we thought, – even we! – and for our thoughts and for our creed we suffered willingly, – yet lo, we have come upon an age of the world in which the people know us not, – or knowing, laugh us all to scorn.