The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone, book Three of the Vergil Magus Series (2005)
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… another tale: in its place … in its place … not a furlong from the site where lieth Great Alexander, lapt in honey and wrapt in gold: which tomb all must visit whom Fortuna takes thither to Alexandria: near that great Canopic Way itself. Not until then did he find the man — not the last man but the next-to-the-last-man of whom the Sibyl spoke, had spoken, in that voice as from a thousand caverns echoing forth — the man: tall and gant and with one eye (even as she’d said) the color of Sidonian ...glass and the tother eye of a common brown color. Seeing him, and with but a lurch of his heart, into the shop, swift, Vergil went. He drew forth the sketch he’d made and showed it; the papyrus had been oft unfolded, and was by then much worn, and very smutched. The shopkeeper glanced at it, with the usual Alexandrian elegance and politesse, but without much real interest, then of a sudden gave a sudden nod, looked up. “You have it, then?” asked Vergil. “My don, I have it not; I had it.
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