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The desired of nations, it shall be a trouble to them forever." Then he saw Nilo under a load of corpses, and touched by remembrance of the poor savage's devotion, he uncovered him to get at his heart, which was still beating. Next he threw away his cap and gown, replaced them with a bloody tarbousche and a shaggy Angora mantle, selected a javelin, and sauntered leisurely on into the city.
To say now that Nilo, standing on the lower platform, was wholly unmoved, would be to deny him the sensibilities without which there can be none of the effects usually incident to courage and cowardice. The vastness of the receptacle stupefied him.
While the Emperor was thus borne down upon the Prince, his dark eyes, kindly looking, glanced from Nilo to Lael, and finally came to rest full upon the face of the master. The officer returned to him.
Gonz. Fern. Ovied. I. 2. c. 3. Plin. I. 9. c. 58. de Maribus Nili. Joan. Leo Afric. I. 9. de Nilo. Our author has got into a strange dilemma, by confounding crocodiles and serpents under one denomination. Plin. and Leo, ub. cit. Plin. I. 2. c. 67. Plin. I. 6. c. 31. This subject will be discussed in the Fifth Part of our work; being much too extensive to admit of elucidation in a note.
Nilo finally comprehending the situation returned to Lael just as the Prince on foot came up to her. She was pale and trembling with fear. The deadlock between the musicians and the mob was brought to an end by the appearance of a detachment of the Imperial guard. A mounted officer, javelin in hand, rode up and shouted: "The Emperor! Make way for the Emperor!"
So now while burrowing, as it were, amongst dead men, his head upon the breast of the Emperor whom, treating Nilo as an instrument in his grip, he had slain, he thought most humanly of the effects of the transformation. First of all, his personal identity was lost, and he was once more a Wanderer without an acquaintance, a friend, or a sympathizer on the earth.
Possibly the chamber and its contents were reproductions of his cell up in Bielo-Osero. Nilo gave himself to study of the drum, reminded, doubtless, of similar warlike devices in Kash-Cush. The Prince alone expostulated. Taking a stand between the Governor and the door, he said: "A question before thou goest hence." The Turk gazed at him silently.
We, with our better information of the devices employed, know what a simple trick it was on the keeper's part to bring the vessel to him he had but to pull the right string in the right direction but Nilo was left to his astonishment. Stealing back to his cover, he drew the door to, and struggled with the mystery.
Spira scarcely tasted it, but crumbled some bread into a cup of milk and water for little Nilo, and coaxed him to swallow a mouthful or two.
Anticipating a little, we may remark, if he comes, and goes into the cistern, Nilo is to open the street door and admit Sergius, who is then to take control of the after operations. A little before sunset the keeper shut his front door. Sergius heard the iron bolt shoot into the mortice.
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