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THE FORTUNE-TELLER 195
they lifted him and set him on his feet, behold, then his eye changed at once. He understood all that had befallen, he stroked his beard and said with a strong voice :
" Up ! This hath had its time. Take care, my dis- ciples, that we have a good dinner, and that right early ! Thus would I do penance for bad dreams !
But the fortune-teller shall eat and drink at my side. And, verily, I shall show him a sea in which he can be drowned ! "
Thus spake Zarathustra. And then for a long while he gazed into the face of the disciple who had been the interpreter of his dream shaking his head.
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