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Vritra, a three-headed monster in the form of a serpent, steals away the herd and hides it in his cave. Indra pursues the robber, enters the cave with fury, overwhelms the monster with his thunderbolt, and leads back the kine to heaven, their milk sprinkling the earth. This myth gradually assumed in the Vedic hymns more splendid and artistic forms, and more amazing personifications.
Then there ascended from the valley a thick vapor, which waved itself in the air like a fluttering veil. It rose, as a plume of feathers, from a steam engine, to which, on the lately-opened railway, a string of carriages was linked, carriage to carriage, looking like a winding serpent. The train shot past with the speed of an arrow.
And into the new Eden came the new serpent also for to destroy. Before Elinor and Victor was the sunlit valley. Behind them was the cave's mouth with its shadowy gloom deepening back to dense darkness.
In a word, Barnabas had attained even unto the World of Fashion. "Gad, Beverley! how the deuce did y' do it?" "Do what, Marquis?" "Charm the Serpent! Tame the Dragon!" "Dragon?" "Make such a conquest of her Graceless Grace of Camberhurst, my great-aunt? I didn't know you were even acquainted, how long have you known her?" "About an hour," said Barnabas. "Eh an hour?
For was not here a woman worthy the Golden Ages of the world? one who could look upon man as a creature divinely made, and look with a mind neither tempted, nor taunted, by the Serpent! Such a woman was rare. Sir Austin did not discompose her by uttering his praises.
During the night the image of the murdered man would drive sleep from her couch, and the Furies, the Dirx, as the Roman Antony called them, who pursue murderers with the serpent scourge, were no idle creations of poetic fancy, but fully symbolized the restlessness of the criminal, driven to and fro by the pangs of conscience.
There was a mortgage on it of ten thousand marks; now it was not worth a hundred. They took it very ill, and Linnæus found himself suddenly so unpopular that he was glad to get out of town overnight. What became of the serpent history does not record. Linnæus had carried more than his thesis on malarial fever with him to Holland.
From Seriff Sahib, who lived up a river at Sadong, adjoining the Sarebus territory, and to whom the "Serpent" Macota had gone, Mr. Brooke and myself had invitations to partake of a feast on our way to the Sarebus river.
He had preserved that document with some vague hope of serving Sim, but here it was the serpent in the breast of both. "This old man," he said, his altered tone startled the listeners, "this old man," he said, pointing to Sim at his side, "is as innocent of the crime as the purest soul that stands before the White Throne." "And what of yourself?"
The sea serpent at once observed this opening and the head left the roof of glass only to reappear presently at the round hole. Through this he slowly crawled until his head was just beneath the throne of Queen Aquareine, who said to him: "Good morning, your Majesty. I hope you are quite well?" "Quite well, thank your Majesty," answered Anko; and then he turned to the strangers.
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