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The Bride of the Nile
Complete

CHAPTER VIII
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I will lead the way and you must keep behind me If only the kitchen is empty, we can reach the Viridarium unseen.

If the upper servants are still sitting in the court-yard the great door will be open, for several of them sleep in the house.

At any rate you must go through the vestibule; you cannot miss your way out of the viridarium.

But stay! Beki generally lies in front of the tablinum--the fierce dog from Herrionthis in Thebais; and he does not know you, for he never goes out of the house, but he will obey me.
"When I lift my hand, hang back a little.

He is quite quiet with his masters, and does not hurt a stranger if they are by.


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