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But Thyrsis answered promptly, "Yes, dear," and continued to watch. And Corydon continued to play. Apparently she knew something about babies how to amuse them and how to handle them, and had even heard rumors about how to feed them. She was asking questions of the nurse-maid, and displaying interest Thyrsis would have been no more amazed had he found her in converse with a Chaldean astrologer.
A typical instance is shown in the way in which, under the assumed name of Isaac Bickerstaff, he dealt with an astrologer and maker of prophetic almanacs, whose name was Partridge.
He came and gained entry to the palace as my astrologer, for he was very learned in all magic much as thou art, Olympus and a man beautiful to see. Now this was his plot that he should slay me and be named Pharaoh. In truth it was a strong one, for he had many friends in Egypt, and I had few.
A skilful astrologer was as much an essential to the government as the highest official, and it would have been a bold monarch, indeed, who would undertake any expedition of importance unless sanctioned by the governing stars as interpreted by these officials. It should not be understood, however, that belief in astrology died with the advent of the Copernican doctrine.
'As many windows, so many towels, I said with disappointment, as I checked them off carefully. 'Damn! said Dick meditatively. Then after a moment or two's thought, 'The old boy's cell must have been on the roof; he was sure to have been an astrologer. Let's go up again and start afresh. So saying he led the way up to the parapet of the battlements, and there we surveyed the roof.
He would have looked like a resuscitated corpse, only for a pair of burning black eyes." "Quite a startling apparition! Melodramatic in the extreme! And this singular being what was he? Clairvoyant, astrologer, what?" "Astrologer an Eastern astrologer Achmet by name." "And who, probably, never was further than London in his life-time. A well-got-up charlatan, no doubt."
I claim these poor fragments, and crave your leave to suffer me to depart with my device and my child." "No, no!" said the duchess, seizing his hand. "Hist! whatever Lord Warwick paid thee, I will double. No time now for alchemy; but for the horoscope, it is the veriest season. I name thee my special astrologer."
He wished to know when the stars would point most favorably toward such a momentous event. This, the Astrologer was not long in finding out and soon conveyed the news to Rathunor that at an early date such might be consummated.
"Oh! astrologer, for the love of Allah, exert your eye to see the unseen." "Hanoum Effendi," replied Ahmet, the instant her excited flow of language had ceased, "I perceive a rent," referring to a tear he had noticed in her shalvars or baggy trousers. Up jumped the Hanoum, exclaiming: "A thousand holy thanks! You are right! Now I remember! I put the ring in a crevice of the cold water fountain."
He is my substitute in matters touching religion." The astrologer wondered greatly at the indifference of his lord to affair? of the heavens. "Art them pleased, holiness," inquired he, "to refuse those indications which the stars give to rulers?" "Do they give them?" asked the pharaoh. "Tell what they promise me." Clearly the astrologer had looked for the question, so he answered directly,
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