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The City of Delight

CHAPTER XX
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He was not happy to lay down this prohibition before them who suffered.
"There is no help in thy faith for such as I am.

In that thy religion fails!" she cried.
"Love, now, is all in all to thee, daughter.

It is but the speech of thy young blood running through thy veins, the claim of thy youth to thy use upon earth.

Resist it; for when thy years are as many as mine thou wilt lose thy rebellious spirit and the fervor will have died out of thy heart.

Then, if thou hast fallen in this hour, how vain and worthless it will seem to thee! Divine fires in the heart of men never become changed in value.


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