"Is she over there in the city, or here in the Necropolis ?" "Here.

She is in fact the daughter of a paraschites." "Of a paraschites ?" exclaimed Nebsecht, once more slipping the rabbit under the table, then I will go." "You curious fellow.

I believe you expect to find something strange among the unclean folk." "That is my affair; but I will go.

What is the man's name ?" "Pinem." "There will be nothing to be done with him," muttered the student, "however--who knows ?" With these words he rose, and opening a tightly closed flask he dropped some strychnine on the nose and in the mouth of the rabbit, which immediately ceased to breathe.

Then he laid it in a box and said, "I am ready." "But you cannot go out of doors in this stained dress." The physician nodded assent, and took from a chest a clean robe, which he was about to throw on over the other! but Pentaur hindered him.