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Lilith

CHAPTER XLIV
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"You would not like the princess to wake and find nobody?
They are quite happy.

So is the leopardess." He was comforted, and wiped his eyes as if he had been all his life used to weeping and wiping, though now first he had tears wherewith to weep--soon to be wiped altogether away.
We followed Eve to the cottage.

There she offered us neither bread nor wine, but stood radiantly desiring our departure.

So, with never a word of farewell, we went out.

The horse and the elephants were at the door, waiting for us.


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