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A profound obscurity reigned in the great sleeping-chamber of Macellum, an ancient palace of Cappadocian princes.
The bed of the young Julian was very hard, -- a wooden pallet, laid with a panther-skin. So the young Julian himself willed it, being bred in the austere principles of the Stoics by Mardonius, his tutor, a passionate disciple of ancient philosophy.