Angels and Women (1924)

26 ANGELS AND WOMEN
Satanas; but what years have rolled away
since the giant offspring of these execrable
marriages have defiled the earth with unnatural
crime! We are powerless, dear brother;
God has forgotten the world!’
"He was so long silent that I looked up
in alarm, for the hand which I held in mine
had grown stony cold. In the gathering
gloom I saw his face beam with a heavenly
radiance. His eyes, dilated by strange emotion,
were fixed upon the northern sky; his
hand was raised, the whole attitude that of
rigid attention, as if he were trying to catch
some distant sound. He was evidently unconscious
of my presence, and though much
alarmed, I dared not disturb him. After
remaining in this rapt posture a few moments,
he sighed heavily, his hands fell, his
head was bowed, and he whispered, ’Even so,
O God most mighty!’
"Presently, turning toward me, he said,
without any allusion to our previous discourse,
’Allimades, thrice the voice has