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Gurta was almost suffocated with passion. “Cyprianus has not escaped, boy?” she asked at length. “I got him off,” said Juba, undauntedly. A shade, as of Erebus, passed over the witch’s face; but she remained quite silent. “Mother, I am my own master,” he continued, “I must break your assumption of superiority. I’m not a boy, though you call me so. I’ll have my own way. Yes, I saved Cyprianus.
“He was after his barleycorn broomstick,” I replied, proudly, “and here it is, although I must confess it is a pretty long one for a fellow of his size, and it looks more like a giant Bo-Peep’s crook than a witch’s broom.” Big Pete eagerly snatched the pole from my hands and examined it carefully.
He speaks amid the incantations of Balaam, raises Samuel’s spirit in the witch’s cavern, prophesies of the Messias by the tongue of the Sibyl, forces Python to recognize His ministers, and baptizes by the hand of the misbeliever. He is with the heathen dramatist in his denunciations of injustice and tyranny, and his auguries of divine vengeance upon crime.
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