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man looked down. Then he looked back up into her face.
"A miracle!" he said, waving his hands dramatically. "The time of miracles is at hand!"
The eagle shifted uneasily.
It recognized humans only as pieces of mobile landscape which, in the lambing season in the high hills, might be associated get out of its way as it dipped across the flagstones and then rose majestically toward the turrets of the Great Temple and the hot sky.
Below it, the doors of the Great Temple, each one made of forty tons of gilded bronze, opened by the breath (it was said) of the Great God Himself, swung open ponderously and-and this was the holy part-silently.with thrown stones when it stooped upon the newborn lamb, but which otherwise were as unimportant in the scheme of things as bushes and rocks. But it had never been so close to so many of them. Its mad eyes swiveled backward and forward uncertainly.At that moment trumpets rang out across the Place.The eagle looked around wildly, its tiny predatory mind trying to deal with this sudden overload.It leapt into the air. The worshipers fought to