THE RETURN TO ATHENS.
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"And this," he said bitterly, "is thy love, when for thee I have sacrificed everything."
"Restore me to Greece," she said; "I can stay no longer in this dreadful place."
He yielded, and in silence conducted her to the car. Then he said to her with gentle, affectionate persuasion—
"Drink again of the nepenthe, and thou shalt awake in Athens."
She hesitated, as if with distrust, and he said with a tone of reproach—
"Nay, if I intended harm to thee, there are still a thousand ways in which I could show my power."
She drank as he bade her, and again felt the strange soothing effect of the drug.
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She was awakened by the words of Thoth.
"Thou art at the rocks from which we departed, and the dawn is near at hand. Here
