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"Ah," he said, in that low-pitched voice which was so terrifying "a gaziyeh of Ancient Egypt! How beautiful you are, Miska! You transport me to the court of golden Pharaoh. Miska! daughter of the moon-magic of Isis Zara el-Khala! At any hour my enemies may be clamoring at my doors. But this hour is mine!"
"And mine," I put in, seeing he paused. "Uncle Dick why?" "Ah! who knows, Imp perhaps it was the Moon-magic. And now by my troth! 'tis full time all good knights were snoring, so hey for bed and the Slumber-world!" The ladder was dragged from its hiding place, and the Imp, having mounted, watched me from his window as I returned it to the laurels for very obvious reasons.
How often through these nights Nelly Sarratt lay awake, in her new white room in Mountain Ash Farm! the broad low window beside her open to the night, to that 'Venus's Looking Glass' of Loughrigg Tarn below her, and to the great heights beyond, now dissolving under the moon-magic, now rosy with dawn, and now wreathed in the floating cloud which crept in light and silver along the purple of the crags.
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