Four years did I live in India among the sages who hold fast to the teaching of Buddha.

The three remaining years I have spent in Arabia, Syria, and Chaldea." "And do you mean to say that what you have mentioned exists in reality ?" said Miss Forrest.
"I have only hinted at what really exists.

I could record to you facts that are strange, beyond the imagination of Dumas; so wonderful, that afterwards you could believe the stories told by your most renowned satirist, Dean Swift." "Favour us with one," I suggested.
Voltaire looked at me with his green-tinted eyes, as if he would read my innermost thoughts.

Evidently his impression of me was not favourable, for a cynical smile curled his lips, and his eyes gleamed with a steely glitter.

"One has to choose times, occasions, and proper circumstances, in order to tell such facts," he said.