The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

CHRISTIAN: "I have come from the City of Destruction, and am going
to the Celestial City; but because the sun has now set, I desire, if I may,
to lodge here tonight."
PORTER: "What is your
name?"
CHRISTIAN: "My name is
now Christian — but at first
my name was Graceless.”
PORTER: "But why have you
come so late, since the sun
has set?"
CHRISTIAN: "I would have
been here sooner — but,
wretched man that I am — I
slept at the arbor on the
hillside. Besides that, while I
slept, I lost my scroll, and
traveled without it to the top
of the hill. Then feeling for it,
and not finding it — I was forced, with sorrow of heart, to go back to the
place where I had slept. There I found it, and hence I have arrived here
so late.”
PORTER: "I will call for one of the maidens of the palace, who, if she
approves of you, according to the rules of the palace — will bring you
in to the rest of the family."
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