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The Last Days of Pompeii

CHAPTER IV
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I was not unmindful of the trust.

The youth, docile and mild, yielded readily to the impression I sought to stamp upon him.

Next to woman, I love the old recollections of my ancestral land; I love to keep alive--to propagate on distant shores (which her colonies perchance yet people) her dark and mystic creeds.

It may be, that it pleases me to delude mankind, while I thus serve the deities.

To Apaecides I taught the solemn faith of Isis.


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