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Uarda
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CHAPTER XXII
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There were four of them for each mummy.] those of the mason and the girl were put back in their bodies.
"Then I went up to the three bodies, and I asked myself, to which I should do such a wrong as to rob him of his heart.

I turned to the two poor ones, and I hastily went up to the sinning girl.

Then I heard the voice of the demon that cried out in my heart 'The girl was poor and despised like you while she walked on Seb, [Seb is the earth; Plutarch calls Seb Chronos.

He is often spoken of as the "father of the gods" on the monuments.

He is the god of time, and as the Egyptians regarded matter as eternal, it is not by accident that the sign which represented the earth was also used for eternity.] perhaps she may find compensation and peace in the other world if you do not mutilate her; and when I turned to the mason's lean corpse, and looked at his hands, which were harder and rougher than my own, the demon whispered the same.


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