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And
actual
tears
rose
to
my
eyes
involuntarily
--
Lucio
surveyed
me
with
evident
amusement
.
"
What
a
'
find
'
you
would
be
to
a
first-class
'
spiritual
'
impostor
playing
his
tricks
in
cultured
and
easily-gulled
London
society
!
"
he
observed
--
"
You
seem
most
powerfully
impressed
by
a
passing
vision
!
"
"
Do
you
mean
to
tell
me
,
"
I
said
earnestly
"
that
what
I
saw
just
now
was
the
mere
thought
of
your
brain
conveyed
to
mine
?
"
"
Precisely
!
"
he
responded
--
"
I
know
what
the
'
City
Beautiful
'
was
like
,
and
I
was
able
to
draw
it
for
you
on
the
canvas
of
my
memory
and
present
it
as
a
complete
picture
to
your
inward
sight
.
For
you
have
an
inward
sight
--
though
like
most
people
,
you
live
unconscious
of
that
neglected
faculty
.
"
"
But
--
who
was
She
?
"
I
repeated
obstinately
.
"
'
She
'
was
,
I
presume
,
the
King
's
favourite
.
If
she
kept
her
face
hidden
from
you
as
you
complain
,
I
am
sorry
!
--
but
I
assure
you
it
was
not
my
fault
!
Get
to
bed
,
Geoffrey
--
you
look
dazed
.
You
take
visions
badly
--
yet
they
are
better
than
realities
,
believe
me
!
"
Somehow
I
could
not
answer
him
.
I
left
him
abruptly
and
went
below
to
try
and
sleep
,
but
my
thoughts
were
all
cruelly
confused
,
and
I
began
to
be
more
than
ever
overwhelmed
with
a
sense
of
deepening
terror
--
a
feeling
that
I
was
being
commanded
,
controlled
and
,
as
it
were
,
driven
along
by
a
force
that
had
in
it
something
unearthly
.
It
was
a
most
distressing
sensation
--
it
made
me
shrink
at
times
,
from
the
look
of
Lucio
's
eyes
--
now
and
then
indeed
I
almost
cowered
before
him
,
so
increasingly
great
was
the
indefinable
dread
I
had
of
his
presence
.
It
was
not
so
much
the
strange
vision
of
the
'
City
Beautiful
'
that
had
inspired
this
in
me
--
for
after
all
,
that
was
only
a
trick
of
hypnotism
,
as
he
had
said
,
and
as
I
was
content
to
argue
it
with
myself
--
but
it
was
his
whole
manner
that
suddenly
began
to
impress
me
as
it
had
never
impressed
me
before
.
If
any
change
was
slowly
taking
place
in
my
sentiments
towards
him
,
so
surely
it
seemed
was
he
changing
equally
towards
me
.
His
imperious
ways
were
more
imperial
--
his
sarcasm
more
sarcastic
--
his
contempt
for
mankind
more
openly
displayed
and
more
frequently
pronounced
.
Yet
I
admired
him
as
much
as
ever
--
I
delighted
in
his
conversation
,
whether
it
were
witty
,
philosophical
or
cynical
--
I
could
not
imagine
myself
without
his
company
.
Nevertheless
the
gloom
on
my
mind
deepened
--
our
Nile
trip
became
infinitely
wearisome
to
me
,
so
much
so
,
that
almost
before
we
had
got
half-way
on
our
journey
up
the
river
,
I
longed
to
turn
back
again
and
wished
the
voyage
at
an
end
.
An
incident
that
occurred
at
Luxor
was
more
than
sufficient
to
strengthen
this
desire
.
We
had
stayed
there
for
several
days
exploring
the
district
and
visiting
the
ruins
of
Thebes
and
Karnac
,
where
they
were
busy
excavating
tombs
.
One
afternoon
they
brought
to
light
a
red
granite
sarcophagus
intact
--
in
it
was
a
richly
painted
coffin
which
was
opened
in
our
presence
,
and
was
found
to
contain
the
elaborately
adorned
mummy
of
a
woman
.
Lucio
proved
himself
an
apt
reader
of
hieroglyphs
,
and
he
translated
in
brief
,
and
with
glib
accuracy
the
history
of
the
corpse
as
it
was
pictured
inside
the
sepulchral
shell
.
"
A
dancer
at
the
court
of
Queen
Amenartes
;
"
he
announced
for
the
benefit
of
several
interested
spectators
who
with
myself
,
stood
round
the
sarcophagus
--
"
Who
because
of
her
many
sins
,
and
secret
guilt
which
made
her
life
unbearable
,
and
her
days
full
of
corruption
,
died
of
poison
administered
by
her
own
hand
,
according
to
the
King
's
command
,
and
in
presence
of
the
executioners
of
law
.
Such
is
the
lady
's
story
--
condensed
;
--
there
are
a
good
many
other
details
of
course
.
She
appears
to
have
been
only
in
her
twentieth
year
.
Well
!
"
and
he
smiled
as
he
looked
round
upon
his
little
audience
--
"
We
may
congratulate
ourselves
on
having
progressed
since
the
days
of
these
over-strict
ancient
Egyptians
!
The
sins
of
dancers
are
not
,
with
us
,
taken
au
grand
serieux
!
Shall
we
see
what
she
is
like
?
"
