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Ah! there was the first miracle!.

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A cry behind him, an eddy in the circle of the sick and the waiting attendants, a figure with shrouding linen fallen from breast and outstretched arms, and then a roar, mighty beyond reckoning, as the whole amphitheatre swayed and cried out in exultation.

He saw as in a vision the rush of doctors to the place, and the gesticulating figures that held back the crowd behind the barrier.