I saw it 
then. She could not reckon his whole worth. She discounted, 
as brokers do a foreign coin. 

He shifted round the tube, and showed us other glories. 
He pointed it low to the north-west, and found the golden locks 
of Berenice, clustered stars of the fourth magnitude, faintly 
traceable by the naked eye ; he wheeled a little southward, as 
the summer heavens cleared, and brought us face to face with 
white, resplendent Arcturus ; far southward still, and lo, 
Altair, glittering between the wings of the Eagle ; eastward a 
little to Delphinus, beautiful lozenge of four diamonds, and 
Markab, flashing from the shoulder of the Flying Horse. He 
showed us double stars, and bright shining nebulae, the dust 
of which the worlds are born ; he made us note the various- 
colored  of different suns, red, golden, and pale blue. 
He told us of the wonderful violet splendor of Sirius,. fairest 
of all those far-off orbs, shining now upon the under-world, and 
coming towards us with the morning ; of the double stars of 
Orion; of Rigel that clasps his ankle, marking his stride 



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through heaven, and Betelgeuse that sits upon his shoulder, 
an epaulet of  ; of the Pleiades