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At one moment he saw and reasoned clearly, at the next his intoxication benumbed his senses and distorted his mental vision. These periods alternated with some regularity, as if the wine-fumes rose in waves; but he centered his attention upon the task ahead of him and hastened his sluggish limbs. One word "murder" stuck in his memory; it kept repeating itself.
Naked he led them from the drinking-bout down the west stairway to the bathing-pool, and naked they plunged in and splashed around him and laughed as the cool shock scattered the night's languor and the wine-fumes. What mattered anything? what they did, or what they suffered, or what news the home-coming boats might bring?
'A very fine lecture that of the Lady Hypatia's the other morning, on Helen's nepenthe, quoth the little porter, growing philosophic as the wine-fumes rose. 'Such a power of extracting the cold water of philosophy out of the bottomless pit of Mythus, I never did hear. Did you ever, my Philammonidion? 'Aha! she and I were talking about that half an hour ago, said Miriam.
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