There is the Serapeum rising out of the darkness.

They are rehearsing the great illumination which is to dazzle the eyes of Caesar when he comes.

But they must show too, that to-night, at least, the gods of the nether world and death are all awake.

You can never have been in the Nekropolis at so late an hour before." "How should I ?" replied the girl.

And he expressed the pleasure that it gave him to be able to show her for the first time the wonderful night scene of such a festival.