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 1 I  | genius of my house, my black serpent slumbering up yonder on
 2 V  |  distinguished a large black serpent. It darted quickly away
 3 V  |     it; delicate slippers of serpent skin were standing on the
 4 VII|    his brow; it moved like a serpent between his eyebrows; all
 5 VII|   ankles to his hips, like a serpent winding about a tree. In
 6 X  |                CHAPTER X~THE SERPENT~These clamourings of the
 7 X  | loftier anxieties: her great serpent, the black python, was drooping;
 8 X  |    of the Carthaginians, the serpent was at once a national and
 9 X  |      of Eschmoun.~Salammbo’s serpent had several times already
10 X  |    within her heart, another serpent, as it were, mounting up
11 X  |   future, and approached the serpent, for auguries were drawn
12 X  |  cord that supported it. The serpent descended slowly like a
13 X  |      the tip of its tail the serpent gently beat her thigh; then
14 XIV|      in turn, as supple as a serpent, and as impregnable as a
15 XV |     swelled like pieces of a serpent.~Several streets began in