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eyes revealed a doubtful hesitancy, and pride and confidence often seemed to give way to despair and self-pity.
Once she said to him, "Is there anything left for thee to discover?" and he replied, with all gravity, "The very beginnings of knowledge are hid from me: my knowledge is a drop in an ocean of ignorance. I have climbed a blind path which, perchance, will soon be lost in a wilderness." And then he relapsed into a melancholy silence.
Occasionally, in their wanderings and explorations. Daphne saw others disguised like themselves, and treated with similar deference by the people generally. Even these, however, showed to Thoth, on sight of his golden staff, the submission of inferiors.
Daphne had been encouraged to ask ques-
