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questions before I went in, as I was thirsting for explanation and knowledge. He saw I was anxious, and looking at me compassionately, he said,—"My poor Specimen, I know all you are thinking of. I know all that is passing through your mind, or to speak correctly, I should have said nearly all, but your mind is not yet in a fit state to receive what I have to tell you. I only beg again that you consider the changes three thousand years will work, and thus prepare your mind for that which is yet to be told. You are anxious to know all about that ruined city—rest assured that that sad story will be related to you in good time—it is of the past, while we are dealing with the present."
