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Melissa lifted her hands in prayer before the statue of the god. She was alone, with the exception of the priest in charge. The temple-servant was absent, and the priest was asleep, breathing heavily, in an arm-chair in a dark nook behind the marble group.
"If the statue had stood on the ground now carried away, it must have fallen at once into the water and have sunk to the bottom any child can see that other powers have been at work here." "Very likely," said a temple-servant who devoted himself to the interpretation of signs: "The gods may have overset the proud image to give a warning token to Hadrian."
After the court had once more quitted Memphis and the procession was broken up, the sisters returned to their room, Irene with crimson cheeks and a smile on her lips, Klea with a gloomy and almost threatening light in her eyes. As the two were going to their room in silence a temple-servant called to Klea, desiring her to go with him to the high-priest, who wished to speak to her.
While Krates was at his work not a word passed between him and the high- priest. At length he laid down the hammer, and said: "I do not much like work of this kind, but this, I think, is successful at any rate. Any temple-servant, hidden here behind the altar, can now light or extinguish the lamps without the illusion being detected by the sharpest.
Then the old man signed to a young temple-servant, who wore a costly wreath; he came forward with a small gilt image of a mummy, carried it round the circle and cried: "Look at this, be merry and drink so long as you are on earth, for soon you must be like this." Lucian saw such an image brought in at a feast.
Melissa lifted her hands in prayer before the statue of the god. She was alone, with the exception of the priest in charge. The temple-servant was absent, and the priest was asleep, breathing heavily, in an arm-chair in a dark nook behind the marble group.
Then the old man signed to a young temple-servant, who wore a costly wreath; he came forward with a small gilt image of a mummy, carried it round the circle and cried: "Look at this, be merry and drink so long as you are on earth, for soon you must be like this." Lucian saw such an image brought in at a feast.
"If the statue had stood on the ground now carried away, it must have fallen at once into the water and have sunk to the bottom any child can see that other powers have been at work here." "Very likely," said a temple-servant who devoted himself to the interpretation of signs: "The gods may have overset the proud image to give a warning token to Hadrian."
The priests separated and went to the votaries. Pentaur once more mounted the steps, and sat down in the narrow confessional which was closed by a curtain; on its wall the picture of Hatasu was to be seen, drawing the milk of eternal life from the udders of the cow Hathor. He had hardly taken his place when a temple-servant announced the arrival of a veiled lady.
While Krates was at his work not a word passed between him and the high-priest. At length he laid down the hammer, and said: "I do not much like work of this kind, but this, I think, is successful at any rate. Any temple-servant, hidden here behind the altar, can now light or extinguish the lamps without the illusion being detected by the sharpest.
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