Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

the spirit of Amneris shall leave her body, and hence- forth dwell with me." " Do you mean that she shall die on the stage in order that her soul may meet your spirit ?" demanded Paulus Androcydes. "Yet, how can this be, since she must submit to the same transmigration as other mortals ?" " She is mine forever," replied Athothis, joyously. " Know, mortal, that I have godlike power, and Amne- ris, like many other women, shall be saved from painful transmigration through her innate faith." " Strange spirit!" gasped Paulus Androcydes. " Why should an immortal fall in love at first sight?—that, too, with a mere play actress and opera singer." "Sneer not at the profession of my Amneris," re- sponded Athothis. " She is merely playing the part assigned to her in the order of nature. She is too beau- tiful to tarry longer on earth, and I shall bear her away at the end of the last act. Amneris, my angel, I adore thee!" "I am bitterly disappointed in you, my Egyptian friend," said Paulus Androcydes, mournfully. " Yet, on consideration, it does not excite my wonder, since this is the first time in six thousand years that you have had a chance to fall in love with a woman. It is said that Terra and Chaos were the parents of love—long before even the gods were acquainted with that passion—and there has been no accounting for tastes since Venus wedded the ugly Yulcan. Perhaps you are Jupiter, again seeking a sweetheart in the disguise of a satyr, bull, swan; and I suppose you will presently disappear in a golden shower, your outgoing being as mysterious as your incoming. Yet, methinks your love for this singer is as foolish as that of the moon for Endymion. Perhaps