The Chaldean Magician

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Eckstein Ernst. The Chaldean Magician

The Chaldean Magician

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

FOOTNOTES:

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Ernst Eckstein

An Adventure in Rome in the Reign of the Emperor Diocletian

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“You have often talked so,” said Caius smiling.

“Talked, but never felt. The best proof of the genuineness of my emotions—to myself—is the ardor with which I long to lead the beloved maiden across my threshold as my wife. You know ‘marriage’ used to be a terrible word to me, Caius: now, since I have seen Hero—her name is really Hero, and she is the daughter of an aristocratic Sicilian—since that time I have known nothing sweeter than Hymen’s torch, and longingly await the moment which, spite of all difficulties and disasters, must at last unite us.”

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