Lord Frederick Leighton Solitude

Lord Frederick Leighton SolitudeFrancois Boucher Venus Consoling LoveFrancois Boucher The Toilet of Venus
Maybe. But I won't tell you what it is. I can give you the Medicine, not tell you the secret."
"All right, thank you, that is a great blessing," she said, bowing several times.
"What is the disease, and who has it?" the old man said.
"It's a sleeping sickness," Ama explained. "It's come upon the son of my father's cousin."
She was being extra clever, she knew, changing the sex of the sufferer, just in case the healer had heard of the woman in the cave.
"And how old is at once to seek your advice."
"I should see the patient and examine him thoroughly, and inquire into the positions of the planets at the hour when he fell asleep. These things can't be done in a hurry."
"Is there no Medicine you can give me to take back?"
The bat daemon fell off her beam and fluttered blackly aside before she hit the floor, darting silently across the room again and again, too quickly for Ama to follow; but the bright eyes of the healer saw exactly where she went, and when she had hung once more upside this boy?""Three years older than me, Pagdzin tulku," she guessed, "so he is twelve years old. He sleeps and sleeps and can't wake up.""Why haven't his parents come to me? Why did they send you?""Because they live far on the other side of my village and they are very poor, Pagdzin tulku. I only heard of my kinsman's illness yesterday and I came