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The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

CHAPTER XVI
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Your granddaughter will soon grow strong on a good meat-diet.

Take courage!" "I am not afraid of the danger," said the old man, "but how can I venture to steal from a dead man his life in the other world?
And then--in shame and misery have I lived, and for many a year--no man has numbered them for me--have I obeyed the commandments, that I may be found righteous in that world to come, and in the fields of Aalu, and in the Sun-bark find compensation for all that I have suffered here.

You are good and friendly.

Why, for the sake of a whim, should you sacrifice the future bliss of a man, who in all his long life has never known happiness, and who has never done you any harm ?" "What I want with the heart," replied the physician, "you cannot understand, but in procuring it for me, you will be furthering a great and useful purpose.

I have no whims, for I am no idler.


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