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"It is a human forehead," he affirmed curtly, "and not bronze. Bronze is darker, sir. This is the great unknown metal of which Plato speaks in the Critias, and which is something between gold and silver: it is the special metal of the mountains of the Atlantides. It is orichalch."
Another idea came to me, and a convulsive laugh bent me double. "Antinea wants me to be at my best when I meet her." A mirror of orichalch formed one whole side of the room. Glancing into it, I realized that in all decency there was nothing exaggerated in the demand.
Come sit here, beside me. Move over, King Hiram." The leopard obeyed with good temper. Beside her was an onyx bowl. She took from it a perfectly plain ring of orichalch and slipped it on my left ring-finger. I saw that she wore one like it. "Tanit-Zerga, give Monsieur de Saint-Avit a rose sherbet." The dark girl in red silk obeyed. "My private secretary," said Antinea, introducing her.
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