Her face was turned towards the window, and the bird of paradise with the gold chain on its foot, was still there, perched on the cypress-tree.

Her eyes fell first on her lover, who had sunk down at her side and was pressing his burning lips to her right hand.

She murmured with a smile: "O, this great happiness!" Then she saw the bird, and pointed to it with tier left hand, crying: "Look, look, there is the Phoenix, the bird of Ra!" After saying this she closed her eyes and was soon seized by a violent attack of fever..