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But that was the ith things here below! Man was the cause of man's misfortune! Daphne and Hermon remained the same; but Archias from an affectionate father had become transformed into an entirely different person If the former had been allowed to follow their inclinations, they would now be united and happy, while, because a third person so willed, they o their way solitary and wretched

He expressed this view to his master, and insisted upon his opinion until Hermon confided to him what had driven Archias from Alexandria

Patran, Bias's successor, was by no ht, he certainly would not have purchased hiyptian had a "bad face"

Oh, if only he could have been permitted to stay with his benefactor instead of this sullen man! How carefully he would have ree he was obliged to undergo severe struggles to keep the oath of secrecy imposed upon him; but perjury threatened him with the most horrible tortures, not to mention the sorceress Tabus, whom he was to meet

So Myrtilus's abode remained unknown to Her into the desert He had often seen the oracle of Amon tested, and he himself had experienced the healthfulness of the desert air Besides, it made hiestion of pitching his tent in a spot which he designated This was at the end of the arrew there beside setables in their little garden, situated on higher ground, watered by the desert wells

When a boy, before the doom of slavery had been pronounced upon him and his father, his mother, by the priest's advice, took him there to recover from the severe attack of fever which he could not shake off a his parents' house In the dry, pure air of the desert he recovered, and he would guide Her to Myrtilus

From Tanis they reached Tennis in a few hours, and found shelter in the ho establishments, whose hospitality Myrtilus and Hermon had enjoyed before their installation in the white house, now burned to the ground The Alexandrian bills of exchange were paid in gold by the lessee of the royal bank, as a good friend of Her the five talents hich the runaife intended to purchase freedom from her husband