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His neck was thrust up and his glittering little eyes never left the stage. The friend bowed and the scholar followed his example. Softly he said to his friend: "What are the three river-gods called?" "The one in the temple," was the reply, "is the Golden Dragon-King. The two on the columns are two captains. They do not dare to sit in the temple together with the king."
It is only low green banks, mud-huts, and palm-clumps, with the sun setting red behind them, and the great, dull, sinuous river flashing here and there in the light. But it is the Nile, the old Saturn of a stream a divinity yet, though younger river-gods have deposed him. Hail! O venerable father of crocodiles!
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