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"I can't stop to listen to you now At the rising of the seven stars I will send a slave to take you to , for I o and leave poor old Hib here to die I can't possibly live another hour a these creatures"

"What would you haveas we are in Persia"

"Have they treated you so very roughly?"

"I should think they had indeed It is loathsome to think of They forced me to eat out of the same pot with them and cut my bread with the saypt, and travelled here with us, had given thes and actions, which we consider unclean They took awaywench kissed me on the forehead, before I could prevent it There, you needn't laugh; it will be a et purified from all these pollutions I took an ean to take effect, they all mocked and sneered at me But that was not all A cursed cook-boy nearly beat a sacred kitten to death before my very eyes Then an ointodless Bubares ask me whether I could cure diseases of the eye too I said yes, because you know in sixty years it's rather hard if one can't pick up so from one's master Bubares was interpreter between us, and the shameful fellow told him to say that he was very much disturbed about a dreadful disease in his eyes I asked what it was, and received for answer that he could not tell one thing from another in the dark!"

"You should have told hiht a candle"

"Oh, I hate the rascals! Another hour a them will be the death of ners," said Nebenchiari sh at you, for the Persians are generally very polite, well-behaved people Try thelad to take you in this evening, but I can't possibly do it before"

"It is as I thought! He's altered too, like everybody else! Osiris is dead and Seth rules the world again"