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I looked up to the sky, thinking a squall was coming on, but not a breath of wind stirred in the tree-tops. On stepping out of the bushes I met face to face a huge serpent coming down a slope, making the dry twigs crack and fly with his weight as he moved over them.
The first few words had little or no significance for Guida, but presently she was held as by the fascination of a serpent. "'And Ma'm'selle Carterette, what do you think this young captain, now Prince Philip d'Avranche, heir to the title of Bercy what do you think he is next to do?
Nevertheless, although her mood was changing, the sense of personal outrage had not completely died out of her. "There really are other serpent eaters?" she asked. "Of course. Saadees." "And that man is one? But he hated my taking the serpent." "But I did not hate it." "No." More strongly she felt that she had grasped something in him which had eluded her till now.
"The tip of a finger or the whole of a hand, it is all the same! It is a mistake, this love! That old story of the Garden and the Serpent is as true as truth. Man and Woman were content to live and adorn the world until one day they espied the stupid red Apple and straightway they must eat! Look even at this Cartel! He is an artist; he might make the world listen to his music. But, no!
Quoth they, "Who art thou and what brings thee hither?" So I told them my story, and they said, "The girl thou seekest is in the city with the Marid; but we know not what he hath done with her. As for us, we are brethren of the white serpent. But go to yonder spring and note where the water enters, and enter thou with it; for it will bring thee into the city."
"An' 'tis a delicate matter to cuss the singers when the musicianers be twice as bad." "I'd a very present sense of being a bar or more behind the fair that I can honestly vow," put in Elias Sweetland, bending across from the left. Now Elias was a bachelor, and had blown the serpent from his youth up. He was a bald, thin man, with a high leathern stock, and shoulders that sloped remarkably.
He had left the holy city like the garden of the Lord, he comes back to find the trail of the serpent all over his paradise. They did so well whilst he was there, they wandered to the right hand and the left so soon as he was parted from them.
And as they were flying away in great grief, they saw Takshaka, the king of snakes, that wonderful serpent, coursing through the blue sky like a streak of the hue of the lotus, and looking very much like the vermilion-coloured line on a woman's crown dividing the dark masses of her hair in the middle. "And the mansion in which the king was living blazed up with Takshaka's poison.
I was an envied father among the fathers of the world my children full of promise, blooming by my side! But oh that fatal hour! the demon of envy entered into the heart of my younger son I listened to the serpent and lost both my children! Lost forever! OLD MOOR. Oh, deeply do I feel the words of Amelia. The spirit of vengeance spoke from her lips.
In shape, as the natives picture it, the dragon is not unlike a huge lizard, with long-nailed claws, and a flat long head like the elongated head of a neighing horse, possessed, however, of horns, and a long mane of fire, or lightning. The tail is like that of a serpent, with five additional pointed ends.
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