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The photographs he examined with supercilious curiosity. Then, passing to a huge cabinet, he began to peer in at the rows of amulets, statuettes and other, unclassifiable, objects with which it was laden. Ferrara's voice came. "That head of a priestess on the left, Cairn, is of great interest. The brain had not been removed, and quite a colony of Dermestes Beetles had propagated in the cavity.

Beati sunt mortui: here rest, we know, the priestess Mammia, the decemvir Aricius, Libella the aedile, and a host of other citizens with whose names the student or the lover of Pompeii is familiar.

Not wishing to drift into discussion on the matter of love, Alan asked the priestess to define her "soul," whence it came and whither she believed it to be going. "My soul is I, Vernoon," she answered, "and already very, very old. Thus it has ruled amongst this people for thousands of years." "How is that?" he asked, "seeing that the Asika dies?"

In a few minutes he found himself on the broad marble embankment, close to the very spot from whence he had first beheld the beautiful High Priestess sailing slowly by in all her golden pomp and splendor, and as he thought of her now, a shudder, half of aversion, half of desire, quivered through him, flushing his brows with the warm uprising blood that yet burned rebelliously at the remembrance of her witching, perfect loveliness!

"Leave me!" The Greek bent to her, and whispered, "Aha! Dost think that I will leave thee here? I care as much for thee now as I do for a dog that has lost sense of smell. But Thou must go with me. Let that lord of thine know that there is a man better than he. He stole a priestess from Astaroth, I take his mistress from the heir of Egypt." "I tell thee that I am sick."

One old priestess learned, I suppose from a crystal ball, that we shall all perish through Phoenicians, especially I and my son," burst out Sarah. "And Thou who believest in One, in Jehovah, fearest the fictions of some stupid old woman who is perhaps intriguing? Where is thy great Deity?" "My God is only mine, but those others are thine; so I must revere them."

"Oh, uncle, see what I have been obliged to do!" she exclaimed, extending both her arms down toward the opening with a look of blended horror and inspiration, such as might have sat upon the countenance of some sacrificial priestess of the olden time. "What what what!" cried the old man, nearly dumb with amazement. "Black Donald was in my room last night.

When all had gone, leaving us alone, save for the priest Oros and the priestess Papave, who remained in attendance on their mistress, Ayesha, who sat gazing before her with dreaming, empty eyes, seemed to awake, for she rose and said "A noble chant, is it not, and an ancient?

Looking at the young man of two-and-twenty, Clemenceau knew by his own infatuation at the same tender age with the same woman, that he had nothing to forgive him for little to reproach him. It was youth that was to blame, and it had loved. No matter who that Cytherean priestess was, he must have adored her whether sister, wife or daughter of dearest friend, teacher and paternal patron.

In the rocks at one side of the lake there yawned a sombre cavern, which was believed in those days to be the entrance to the kingdom of Pluto the abode of the dead. Æneas was surveying the temple, an edifice of great splendor, adorned with pictures wrought in metal by the cunning hand of Dædalus, when Achates, whom he had sent before him to the Sibyl's cave, approached, conducting the priestess.