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Who can tell what half-forgotten deity may have found Maestro Tomaso asleep in the woods, that magician Virgil in his hands, for on this coast the gods wander even yet, and, creeping behind him, finding him so fair, may have kissed him on the ears, as the snakes kissed Cassandra when she lay asleep at noon in Troy of old. Certainly their habitations, their old places may still be found.
'Indeed there is nothing that would be more welcome to me than a night's lodging, answered the boy; 'I have been wandering all day in the forest, and did not know how to get home again. 'Come with me, you must be hungry as well as tired, said the magician, and led the way to his house, where the guest flung himself on a bed, and went fast asleep.
"I wish," said Jock, "that The Rigs could be lifted up by some magician and plumped down in Laverlaw Glen." "Oh, Jock, wouldn't that be fine?" sighed the Mhor. "Plumped right down at the side of the burn, and then we could fish out of the windows." The sun had left the glen, the Laverlaw Water ran wan; it seemed suddenly to have become a wild and very lonely place.
The magician was looking out of his window at nothing at all, when they came past his castle, hand in hand. "We are going to build the most wonderful houses in the world," cried the Princess, "ever so much more wonderful than the stupid castle in the air you gave me!" This was not very gracious of her, for, after all, the magician had given her exactly what she had built for herself.
When they had travelled nearly ten minutes from Earth and were about to pass into the midst of the flame, that magician who controlled their journey halted them suddenly in Space, among the upper mountain-peaks of the Sun. There they hovered as the clouds hover that leave their companions and drift among crags of the Alps: below them those awful mountains heaved and thundered.
And, curiously enough, within the scene of the Picture was the scene they were now beholding, so they knew that the Magician was at this moment watching them in the Picture, and also that he saw himself and the room he was in become visible to the people on the hillside. Therefore he knew very well that they were watching him while he was watching them.
It would not be many minutes before the head would find a happy resting-place upon the shoulder beside it, and all the little trials and troubles trials so very real and very appalling to young hearts would be put into words, and lose half their bitterness in the telling just because love that mighty magician had come to help bear them.
Here again he looked at the child, which seemed to feel his glance, for it woke up and beat the air with its little hands. The nurse felt it also, although her head was turned away, for she started and then took shelter behind the bole of one of the palm-trees. Now Merapi said in a low and shaken voice: "I know what you mean, Magician, for since then I have seen my uncle Jabez."
His mother heard with much interest this surprising relation, notwithstanding it could be no small affliction to a mother who loved her son tenderly; but yet in the most moving part, which discovered the perfidy of the African magician, she could not help showing, by marks of the greatest indignation, how much she detested him; and when her son had finished his story, she broke out into a thousand reproaches against that vile impostor.
In the beginning, of course, the priest and the magician ruled the field. The "Church of Good Society" has discovered astronomy!
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