CHAPTER XLI.—A CHIME AND A DIRGE AT CHRISTMAS-TIME.

“Motherhood priced”—“Thou shalt be saved in child-bearing”—Sylvan gods of Rome—“The Miriamites,”—“In Rama, weeping and great mourning”—Joachim’s bleating lamb slain—Woman’s supreme hour—Maternity’s crucifixion—“The Cæsarian Section”—The ebbing tide and the stranded wreck, at midnight. Page 595