| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 239 | "Do you View more quotes about truly">truly think I can create darkness in the midst of day, that I can seize a woman and fly off with her, in a blazing light?" This sort of thing, of course, spoke to me of no ordinary matters, even of deception and smoke, such as might have been contrived by mountebanks skilled in illusions. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 236 | "You must!" he cried. |
| 26 | 237 | "I do not," I said. |
| 26 | 238 | "You speak falsely!" he cried. |
| 26 | 239 | "Do you truly think I can create darkness in the midst of day, that I can seize a woman and fly off with her, in a blazing light?" This sort of thing, of course, spoke to me of no ordinary matters, even of deception and smoke, such as might have been contrived by mountebanks skilled in illusions. |
| 26 | 240 | It spoke to me rather of Priest-Kings, or Kurii. |
| 26 | 241 | The smoke would conceal the abduction, simply enough, and the blazing light would be a shielding, concealing, bewildering, dazzling illumination emitted from a departing vessel. |
| 26 | 242 | Neither Priest-Kings nor Kurii cared much to advertise their devices. |