[Serapis Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookSerapis Complete CHAPTER IV 9/18
Did you ever see two drunken men walking arm in arm, and lurching first to one side and then to the other? You may laugh, but by the nine Muses it was just like that.
Then Papias grew tired and cross and kept asking where Agne was, till at last he began to cry.
When I asked him what he was crying for, he said he had forgotten, I really am patient--you must all allow that--I did not do anything to him, but, just to give him something to play with, I took out the key, for there was nothing else at hand that he could not break, and gave it to him and told him to play a tune on it.
This delighted him, and he really did it quite prettily.
Then I looked over my burnt dress and was horrified to see how large the holes were, and it struck me that I might turn it, because when you turn a thing the spots, you know, do not show." "You have invented that this very minute," cried Orpheus laughing.
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