Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wakes, and finds his box and dagger gone,” said Karl, laughing. “ The miscreant deserves no mercy, and it s a marvel he has not met with his deserts long ago,” replied Zorastro. “ Where didst thou meet him before ? ” “ I think it was at Padua, some years ago, where I saved him from some rough handling. Afterwards I learnt that he was suspected of having administered poison to an abbot, and he was ready to poison anyone if bribed with sufficient money.” “ It is a wonder he has escaped the hang- man.” “He takes good care of that', and is as cunning as an old fox. He is an Italian, and boasts that he is employed by the Council of Ten, by whose orders many secret murders are perpetrated. He is one of many such vagabonds I have met with, and from whom I have not been ashamed to learn anything which seemed useful to me. Thou knowest, Karl, that a lover will go a long way to meet the woman he adores, and so the real lover of wisdom is tempted to go much further in search of his divine mistress.”