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As it was, however, the young convert met it unmoved, and returned it with an eye of proud defiance. 'Apaecides, said the Egyptian, in a tremulous and inward tone, 'beware! What is it thou wouldst meditate? Speakest thou reflect, pause before thou repliest from the hasty influences of wrath, as yet divining no settled purpose, or from some fixed design?
And that which has so long stood the test of time rarely succumbs to the lust of novelty. But hark ye, young brother! these sayings are indiscreet. 'It is not for thee to silence them, replied Apaecides, haughtily. 'So hot! yet I will not quarrel with thee. Why, my Apaecides, has not the Egyptian convinced thee of the necessity of our dwelling together in unity?
He was rarely to be found; he turned sullenly from the Egyptian nay, he fled when he perceived him in the distance. Arbaces was one of those haughty and powerful spirits accustomed to master others; he chafed at the notion that one once his own should ever elude his grasp. He swore inly that Apaecides should not escape him.
Apaecides! yes, that was the name I heard in... Ha! he well, then, knows the peril that surrounds his sister; I will go to him. She sprang up at that thought, and taking the staff which always guided her steps, she hastened to the neighboring shrine of Isis.
Speak to me, but forbear to bless me! Utter not one word of those forms of speech which our childhood was taught to consider sacred! 'Alas! and what then shall I say? Our language of affection is so woven with that of worship, that the words grow chilled and trite if I banish from them allusion to our gods. 'Our gods! murmured Apaecides, with a shudder: 'thou slightest my request already.
Has he not convinced thee of the wisdom of deluding the people and enjoying ourselves? If not, oh, brother! he is not that great magician he is esteemed. 'Thou, then, hast shared his lessons? said Apaecides, with a hollow smile. 'Ay! but I stood less in need of them than thou. Nature had already gifted me with the love of pleasure, and the desire of gain and power.
The slave bowed his head in silence, and leading Apaecides to a wing without the hall, conducted him up a narrow staircase, and then traversing several rooms, in which the stern and thoughtful beauty of the sphinx still made the chief and most impressive object of the priest's notice, Apaecides found himself in a dim and half-lighted chamber, in the presence of the Egyptian.
And the end for which He thus toiled and thus suffered how far more glorious did it seem to Apaecides than that for which the deities of old had visited the nether world, and passed through the gates of death!
'Such promises, said Apaecides, sullenly, 'are the tricks by which man is ever gulled. Oh, glorious were the promises which led me to the shrine of Isis! 'But, answered the Nazarene, 'ask thy reason, can that religion be sound which outrages all morality? You are told to worship your gods. What are those gods, even according to yourselves? What their actions, what their attributes?
Arbaces himself now resolved to exert all his arts to possess himself of that treasure he so burningly coveted. He was cheered and elated by his conquests over her brother. From the hour in which Apaecides fell beneath the voluptuous sorcery of that fete which we have described, he felt his empire over the young priest triumphant and insured.
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