Angels and Women (1924)

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began to wonder how long we would yet be
confined in our Tebah.
AZELLES
This evening I stood alone and watched
the waves, as in capricious play with the
wind they rippled against the sides of our
vessel. Twilight brooded over the boundless
ocean--a sea where naught hath breath;
no cities on its shores, no islands on its
bosom, no ships plowing its waves, nor birds
skimming the surface, only infinite tranquillity
and silence---and the night. The Tebah
drifted in the soft breeze, the darkness deepened
and a shadow fell upon my soul as
memory recalled the past.
It was but a short time, and yet it seemed
an age, since I listened to the wind in the
cypress-tops and to the sound of the river
flowing on, calm as the current of my life.
Ah, what unexpected depths of passion,
what strange events awaited me! Only He
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