The Angel oj Terror Chapter I
THE hush of the court, which had been broken
when the foreman of the jury returned their
verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a
quick glance over his pince-nez at the tall
prison er, marshalled his papers 'wi th the precision
and method which old men display in
tense moments such as these. He gathered
them together, white paper and blue and buff
and stacked them in a neat heap on a tiny
ledge to the left of his desk. Then he took
his pen and wrote a few words on a printed
paper before him.
Another breathless pause and he groped
beneath the desk and brought out a small
square of black silk and carefully laid it over
his white wig. Then he spoke:
" J ames Meredith, you have been convicted
after a long and patient trial of the awful crime
of wilful murder. With the verdict of the jury
I am in complete agreement. There is little
doubt, after hearing the evidence of the unfortunate
lady to whom you were engaged, and
vhose evide

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Before dealing with the special varieties of the Egyptians' belief in gods, it is best to try to avoid a misunderstanding of their whole conception of the supernatural. The term god has come to tacitly imply to our minds such a highly specialised group of attributes, that we can hardly throw our ideas back into the more remote conceptions to which we also attach the same name. It is unfortunate that every other word for supernatural intelligences has become debased, so that we cannot well speak of demons, devils, ghosts, or fairies without implying a noxious or a trifling meaning, quite unsuited to the ancient deities that were so beneficent and powerful. If then we use the word god for such conceptions, it must always

Table of Contents

I The Nature of Gods, 1; II The Nature of Man, 7; III The Future Life, 12; IV Animal Worship, 20; V The Groups of Gods Animal-Headed Gods, 28; VI The Human Gods, 37; VII The Cosmic Gods, 50; VIII The Abstract Gods, 58; IX The Foreign Gods, 62; X The Cosmogony, 67; XI The Ritual and Priesthood, 70; XII The Sacred Books, 76; XIII Private Worship, 81; XIV Egyptian Ethics, 86; XV The Influence of Egypt, 90; Index, 94

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IT is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation is too nluch the result of selection and eliInination to be within reach of the awakening clutch on life. But Kate Orme, for once, had yielded herself to happiness, letting it penneate every faculty _as a spring rain soaks into a germinating nleado"v. - - There ,vas nothing to account for this sudden sense of beatitude; but 'was it not this precisely ,vhich made it so irresistible, so overwheln1ing? There had been, within the last two months-since her engagement to Denis Peyton-no distinct addition to the sum of her happiness, and no possibility~ she "vould have affirmed, of adding perceptibly to a total already incalculable. In, vardlyand outwardly the conditions of her [ S ]

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