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Angels and Women (1924)

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198 ANGELS AND WOMEN<br />

husb<strong>and</strong> enters <strong>and</strong> we spend much time in<br />

loving conversation.<br />

We have been in the Tebah for seven days<br />

<strong>and</strong> there has been a solemn hush over everything!<br />

A tense feeling of expectancy. The<br />

door is closed. This was done by an unseen<br />

h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> we know the time has arrived.!<br />

How quiet everything is l The calm before<br />

the 1 storm.<br />

I hear voices of men <strong>and</strong> Darv<strong>and</strong>s under<br />

our window. They say that wild animals<br />

are now w<strong>and</strong>ering about <strong>and</strong> ravaging the<br />

country. The speakers without crouch under<br />

the shadow of the Tebah, greatly terrified.<br />

Their words are frightful--they curse<br />

the heated air, they curse the Devas for their<br />

continued absence; they curse themselves,<br />

<strong>and</strong> God.<br />

After the morning repast <strong>and</strong> a sacrifice<br />

of unusual solemnity, we sat for a long time<br />

in silent meditation. Soon the voice of the<br />

Prophet broke the stillness: "The time has<br />

a See Appendix, Note 24.

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