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 "Teleny, who had heard them as well as I had, shrugged his shoulders, and muttered something between his teeth.

A carriage is waiting for me at the back door,' said he, slipping his arm under mine. 'Still, if you prefer walking'

Very much so, for it has been so stiflingly hot in the theatre.'

Yes, very hot,' added he, repeating my words, and evidently thinking of something else. Then all at once, as if struck by a sudden thought, 'Are you superstitious?' said he.

Superstitious?' I was rather struck by the quaintness of his question. 'Well—yes, rather, I believe.'

I am very much so. I suppose it is my nature, for you see the Gipsy element is strong in me. They say that educated people are not superstitious. Well, first I have had a wretched education; and then I think that if we really knew the mysteries of nature, we could probably explain all those strange coincidences that are ever happening.' Then, stopping abruptly, 'Do you believe in the transmission of thought, of