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Lilith

CHAPTER XVII
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"Neither am I in hell.

But those skeletons are in hell!" Ere he ended I caught sight of the raven on the bough of a beech, right over my head.

The same moment he left it, and alighting on the ground, stood there, the thin old man of the library, with long nose and long coat.
"The male was never a gentleman," he went on, "and in the bony stage of retrogression, with his skeleton through his skin, and his character outside his manners, does not look like one.

The female is less vulgar, and has a little heart.

But, the restraints of society removed, you see them now just as they are and always were!" "Tell me, Mr.Raven, what will become of them," I said.
"We shall see," he replied.


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