[When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookWhen the World Shook CHAPTER XVI 26/30
"This I do know, however, that everything which has happened on this world can be seen from moment to moment at some point in the depths of space, for thither the sun's light takes it.
There, too, it can be caught and thence in an instant returned to earth again, to be reflected in the mirror of the present by those who know how that mirror should be held.
Ask me no more; one so wise as you, O Bickley, can solve such problems for himself." "If you don't mind, Lady Yva," said Bastin, "I think I should like to get out of this place, interesting as it is.
I have food to cook up above and lots of things to attend to, especially as I understand I am to come back here tomorrow.
Would you mind showing me the way to that lift or moving staircase ?" "Come," she said, smiling. So we went past the image of Fate, out of the temple, down the vast and lonely streets so unnaturally illuminated, to the place where we had first found ourselves on arrival in the depths.
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