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Jacques de Léra, alone among the many men whom Vanderlyn had come across since the disappearance of Mrs. Pargeter had become the talk of the town, made no allusion to the mystery, and asked no puerile question of the man who was known to be her friend. "Mr. Vanderlyn has been asking me what I knew of the fortune-teller, Madame d'Elphis.
But Dirck lingered a minute, not yet satisfied with what had been already told him. "Do you really think I shall never be married, Mother?" he asked, in a tone that sufficiently betrayed the importance he attached to the answer. "I wish to know that particularly, before I go away!" "Young man," answered the fortune-teller in an oracular manner; "what has been said, has been said!
She had few personal affronts to avenge, and few temptations in the simple community where she lived to practise more than the ordinary arts of a rural fortune-teller, keeping in impenetrable shadow the darker side of her character as a born sorceress and poisoner.
"Madame Bradamor, the famous fortune-teller, who lives below, at the other end of the street?" "The same." "You know her?" "A little; I sometimes do errands for her." "Ah, ah!... And what did the old wizard say to you?" "She said that if I could enter that house as a domestic, I should have a very agreeable existence."
The fortune-teller shook his head. "They tell me, sir, not a spirit a man, but not as other men; a very, very bad man; one that the great king, long, long ago, the king you call Wise " "Solomon?" suggested Cairn. "Yes, yes, Suleyman! one that he, when he banish all the tribe of the demons from earth one that he not found." "One he overlooked?" jerked Sime. "Yes, yes, overlook!
But, in narrating the career of such men, it will be found that many of them united several or all of the functions just mentioned; that the alchymist was a fortune-teller, or a necromancer that he pretended to cure all maladies by touch or charm, and to work miracles of every kind. In the dark and early ages of European history, this is more especially the case.
He told me himself how a fortune-teller once predicted that "he would one day let loose a world war." Although to a certain extent this prophecy flattered him, containing as it did the unspoken recognition that the world would have to reckon on him as a powerful factor, still he emphatically pointed out how mad such a prophecy was.
Josephine, laughing, turned to her astonished women, who had followed with their eyes the flight of the prophetess, but who now directed their dark eyes with an expression of awe and bewilderment to their young mistress, of whom the fortune-teller had said she would one day be Queen of France.
They said good-bye and started off. "Say, Jack," said Little Tim, as they walked along together, "that's the fortune-teller that was down to Benton with the circus. Remember I told you we caught Witham coming out of the tent? Well, I asked her what he was there for, and it wasn't anything at all. He was only hunting for some papers that somebody had hidden " "What's that tell me about that?"
But during one of these exciting performances Will came to a short stop. "I believe I'll run a show when I get to be a man," said he. "That fortune lady said you'd got to be President of the United States," said Eliza. "How could ze presiman won a show?" asked May. "How could that old fortune-teller know what I'm going to be?" Will would answer, disdainfully.
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