Aleph answered, “Your compensation is large—I fear much too large for doing what to me has been a pleasure and an education. And yet I cannot decline to accept an approval which my heart values so highly.”
In parting he extended his hand. She placed her own within it. He carried the snowy prisoner in grave and reverent courtesy to his lips. Was she offended?
IX.
THE MAGICIAN.
Επι τὰς άφανεῖς καθίστανται, μαντικήν τε καὶ χρησμούς καὶ τοιαῦτα.
Thucydides, v. 103.
They have recourse to the invisible realm—to necromancy, and fortune-telling, and such things.
- 1. The greatest show on earth.
- 2. Simon Magus at his best.
- 3. Also at his worst.
- 4. Avaunt, Sathanas!