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When the World Shook

CHAPTER XVIII
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He ran forward, stopped, and with a yell of hate hurled it, I think at Bastin, but it hit me.

At any rate I felt a shock and remembered no more.
Dreams.Dreams.Endless dreams! What were they all about?
I do not know.
It seemed to me that through them continually I saw the stately figure of old Oro contemplating me gravely, as though he were making up his mind about something in which I must play a part.

Then there was another figure, that of the gracious but imperial Yva, who from time to time, as I thought, leant over me and whispered in my ear words of rest and comfort.

Nor was this all, since her shape had a way of changing suddenly into that of my lost wife who would speak with her voice.

Or perhaps my wife would speak with Yva's voice.


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