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Lilith

CHAPTER XLII
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She will go on steadily growing younger until she reaches the perfection of her womanhood--a splendour beyond foresight.
Then she will open her eyes, behold on one side her husband, on the other her son--and rise and leave them to go to a father and a brother more to her than they." I heard as one in a dream.

I was very cold, but already the cold caused me no suffering.

I felt them put on me the white garment of the dead.
Then I forgot everything.

The night about me was pale with sleeping faces, but I was asleep also, nor knew that I slept..


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