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Show Touch of Defilement Sopbronius had a fair daughter named Eulalia and she asked his permission per-mission one day to visit the gay Lu-clnda. Lu-clnda. "I cannot allow It," said the Greek father. "Then you must think me exceedingly weak," said the daughter daugh-ter Indignantly. Sophronlus picked up a dead coal from the hearth and handed hand-ed It to his daughter, but she hesitated to accept it. "Take It, my child, It will not burn you." Eulalia obeyed, and the milky whiteness of her hnnd was Instantly gone. "Father, we cannot he too careful In handling coals," said the vexed daughter. "No," said the father solemnly, "for even when they do not burn they blacken." So It Is with evil companions and communications. |