Eothen By A. W. Kingslake

































 -   Both of these suppositions were highly gratifying,
because they were both marvellous; and though the story on which
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Both Of These Suppositions Were Highly Gratifying, Because They Were Both Marvellous; And Though The Story On Which They Were Founded Plainly Sprang From The Inventive Brain Of A Poet, No One Had Ever Been So Odiously Statistical As To Attempt A Contradiction Of It.

I now mentioned the story as a report to Lady Hester Stanhope, and asked her if it were true.

I could not have touched upon any imaginable subject more deeply interesting to my hearer, more closely akin to her habitual train of thinking. She immediately threw off all the restraint belonging to an interview with a stranger; and when she had received a few more similar proofs of my aptness for the marvellous, she went so far as to say that she would adopt me as her eleve in occult science.

For hours and hours this wondrous white woman poured forth her speech, for the most part concerning sacred and profane mysteries; but every now and then she would stay her lofty flight and swoop down upon the world again. Whenever this happened I was interested in her conversation.

She adverted more than once to the period of her lost sway amongst the Arabs, and mentioned some of the circumstances that aided her in obtaining influence with the wandering tribes. The Bedouin, so often engaged in irregular warfare, strains his eyes to the horizon in search of a coming enemy just as habitually as the sailor keeps his "bright lookout" for a strange sail. In the absence of telescopes a far-reaching sight is highly valued, and Lady Hester possessed this quality to an extraordinary degree.

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