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good, and did not imagine that I should ever have the power.
"One day as I was looking on the fields withering with heat, I felt in my mind a sudden wish that I could send rain on the southern mountains, and raise the Nile to an inundation. In the hurry of my imagination I commanded rain to fall, and, by comparing the time of my command, with that of the inundation, I found that the clouds had listned to my lips."
"Might not some other cause, said I, produce this concurrence? the Nile does not always rise on the same day."
"Do not believe, said he with impatience, that such objections could escape
me:
