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| 1 | 254 | It is said that if one sees oneself View more quotes about black">black and wasted in the blood, one will perish of disease; if one sees oneself torn and bloody, one will perish in battle; if one sees oneself old and gray one will die in peace and leave children. |
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| 1 | 251 | "Bertram of Lydius has fled," cried Publius, the kitchen master. |
| 1 | 252 | I had thought this would be true. |
| 1 | 253 | I had looked into the blood, cupped in my hands. |
| 1 | 254 | It is said that if one sees oneself black and wasted in the blood, one will perish of disease; if one sees oneself torn and bloody, one will perish in battle; if one sees oneself old and gray one will die in peace and leave children. |
| 1 | 255 | But the sleen did not speak to me. |
| 1 | 256 | I had looked into the blood, cupped in my hands, but had seen nothing, only the blood of a beast. |
| 1 | 257 | It did not choose to speak to me, or could not. |