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Simon the Jester

CHAPTER VI
18/47

Once it was divine--in ancient Egypt.

Doubtless monsieur has heard of Pasht?
Holy men spent their lives in approaching the cat-soul.

Madame was born to the privilege.

Pasht watches over her." "Pasht," I said politely in French, in reply to this clotted nonsense, "was a great divinity.

And for yourself, who knows but what you may have been in a previous incarnation the keeper of the Sacred Cats in some Egyptian temple." "I was," he said, with staggering earnestness.


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