8/27 She thinks you sick--that a dreadful accident happened you yesterday. What was it? She knows the cures of the Egyptians, who were always a stupid set; but I have a great many recipes of the Arabs who--" "Are even more stupid than the Egyptians," he said, shaking his head. "We will have nothing to do with any of them. I have here what is much surer and better--the amulet which was given to some of our people--I cannot tell when, it was so far back--by a Persian magician. |