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Nothing new, I replied; only an old Phoenician tale (Laws) of

what has often occurred before now in other places, (as the poets

say, and have made the world believe,) though not in our time,

and I do not know whether such an event could ever happen again,

or could now even be made probable, if it did.

How your words seem to hesitate on your lips!

You will not wonder, I replied, at my hesitation when you have

heard.

Speak, he said, and fear not.