"But are you sure that you see? Are you sure that you live? Perhaps nothing at all exists!"
The Devil has seized Antony, and, holding him by the extremities of his arms, stares at him with open jaws ready to swallow him up.
"Come, adore me! and curse the phantom that you call God!"
Antony raises his eyes with a last movement of lingering hope.
CHAPTER VII.
The Chimera and the Sphinx.
