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"I did want to do something for the children−−the precious Little Ones, I mean." "I know you did−−and started the wrong way!" "I did not know the right way." "That is true also−−but you are to blame that you did not." "I am ready to believe whatever you tell me−−as soon as I understand what it means." "Had you accepted our invitation, you would have known the right way. When a man will not act where he is, he must go far to find his work." "Indeed I have gone far, and got nowhere, for I have not found my work! I left the children to learn how to serve them, and have only learned the danger they are in." "When you were with them, you were where you could help them: you left your work to look for it! It takes a wise man to know when to go away; a fool may learn to go back at once!" "Do you mean, sir, I could have done something for the Little Ones by staying with them?" "Could you teach them anything by leaving them?" "No; but how could I teach them? I did not know how to begin. Besides, they were far ahead of me!" "That is true. But you were not a rod to measure them with! Certainly, if they knew what you know, not to say what you might have known, they would be ahead of you−−out of sight ahead! but you saw they were not growing−−or growing so slowly that they had not yet developed the idea of growing! they were even afraid of growing!−−You had never seen children remain children!" "But surely I had no power to make them grow!" "You might have removed some of the hindrances to their growing!" "What are they? I do not know them. I did think perhaps it was the want of water!" "Of course it is! they have none to cry with!" "I would gladly have kept them from requiring any for that purpose!" "No doubt you would−−the aim of all stupid philanthropists! Why, Mr. Vane, but for the weeping in it, your world would never have become worth saving! You confess you thought it might be water they wanted: why did not you dig them a well or two?" "That never entered my mind!" Lilith "Not when the sounds of the waters under the earth entered your ears?" "I believe it did once. But I was afraid of the giants for them. That was what made me bear so much from the brutes myself!" Lilith 90
"Indeed you almost taught the noble little creatures to be afraid of the stupid Bags! While they fed and comforted and worshipped you, all the time you submitted to be the slave of bestial men! You gave the darlings a seeming coward for their hero! A worse wrong you could hardly have done them. They gave you their hearts; you owed them your soul!−−You might by this time have made the Bags hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Little Ones!" "I fear what you say is true, Mr. Raven! But indeed I was afraid that more knowledge might prove an injury to them−−render them less innocent, less lovely." "They had given you no reason to harbour such a fear!" "Is not a little knowledge a dangerous thing?" "That is one of the pet falsehoods of your world! Is man's greatest knowledge more than a little? or is it therefore dangerous? The fancy that knowledge is in itself a great thing, would make any degree of knowledge more dangerous than any amount of ignorance. To know all things would not be greatness." "At least it was for love of them, not from cowardice that I served the giants!" "Granted. But you ought to have served the Little Ones, not the giants! You ought to have given the Little Ones water; then they would soon have taught the giants their true position. In the meantime you could yourself have made the giants cut down two−thirds of their coarse fruit−trees to give room to the little delicate ones! You lost your chance with the Lovers, Mr. Vane! You speculated about them instead of helping them!" CHAPTER XXIX. THE PERSIAN CAT I sat in silence and shame. What he said was true: I had not been a wise neighbour to the Little Ones! Mr. Raven resumed: "You wronged at the same time the stupid creatures themselves. For them slavery would have been progress. To them a few such lessons as you could have given them with a stick from one of their own trees, would have been invaluable." "I did not know they were cowards!" "What difference does that make? The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.−−I fear worse will come of it! By this time the Little Ones might have been able to protect themselves from the princess, not to say the giants−−they were always fit enough for that; as it was they laughed at them! but now, through your relations with her,−−−−" "I hate her!" I cried. "Did you let her know you hated her?" Again I was silent. Lilith "Not even to her have you been faithful!−−But hush! we were followed from the fountain, I fear!" "No living creature did I see!−−except a disreputable−looking cat that bolted into the shrubbery." Lilith 91
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Lilith George MacDonald
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Lilith George MacDonald • CHAPTER
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Lilith The library, although duly c
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CHAPTER II. THE MIRROR Nothing more
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"I saw you come through it!−−sa
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Lilith was the mirror, on whose top
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"I do not want to go," I said. "Tha
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"Ten minutes ago you did not see it
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CHAPTER V. THE OLD CHURCH I followe
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"Here we are at last!" said the rav
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"I never saw one do it!" "You saw m
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helmet" gleaming like a moonstone.
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"That also you will know when you w
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"Where was that?" "In this very roo
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"That is the door I spoke of," he s
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"I would have lain down at once had
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Lilith larger, and at length gave m
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The moon went below, and the world
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molten music sang me into a dreamle
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I lay on the floor that night hardl
Page 41 and 42: I had found that to ask precisely t
Page 43 and 44: had never seen any before they saw
Page 45 and 46: A long pause followed. "Then you do
Page 47 and 48: "I will," I replied−−and sat do
Page 49 and 50: "There is no hurt in the air," she
Page 51 and 52: their princess and her power, and d
Page 53 and 54: I learned afterward that there were
Page 55 and 56: Lilith to grow dark. At my feet lay
Page 57 and 58: I was lying on my withered leaves i
Page 59 and 60: "Have you hurt yourself, my lord?"
Page 61 and 62: "Granted!−−but in which or what
Page 63 and 64: they are pretty steadily growing mo
Page 65 and 66: To do for her all I could, I spread
Page 67 and 68: She was lying as I had left her. Th
Page 69 and 70: other from her shoulders. With the
Page 71 and 72: "Doubtless you pitied me!" "Never h
Page 73 and 74: Despair restored my volition; the s
Page 75 and 76: night. I ran the faster, though I c
Page 77 and 78: Lilith CHAPTER XXII. BULIKA I had l
Page 79 and 80: "Thank you!" she murmured. "Have yo
Page 81 and 82: As I lay sleepless, I began to hear
Page 83 and 84: "Take me to the princess," I said.
Page 85 and 86: The princess stood waiting me, in a
Page 87 and 88: CHAPTER XXVI. A BATTLE ROYAL I thre
Page 89 and 90: I turned and followed the spotted l
Page 91: in a stormy water, I was flung abou
Page 95 and 96: "A song that had no sound into his
Page 97 and 98: Then at last I understood that Mr.
Page 99 and 100: "But," I returned, hard to persuade
Page 101 and 102: do. The librarian walked on in sile
Page 103 and 104: "Mr. Vane," croaked the raven, "thi
Page 105 and 106: All day I worked hard. When the dar
Page 107 and 108: Lilith I lay down by a tree, and on
Page 109 and 110: Now arose in the mind of the woman
Page 111 and 112: Little Ones, from a crowd of childr
Page 113 and 114: them as for those other animals, bu
Page 115 and 116: Lilith myself learned to obey! Untr
Page 117 and 118: For she must think! Now what she ca
Page 119 and 120: CHAPTER XXXVII. THE SHADOW A murmur
Page 121 and 122: In the morning we set out, and made
Page 123 and 124: "He will kill me!" she moaned. "At
Page 125 and 126: "Will the cat−woman−−I mean t
Page 127 and 128: terrible, something they were not t
Page 129 and 130: "Such a compulsion would be without
Page 131 and 132: embrace of a friend whom her soul h
Page 133 and 134: een timelessly, spacelessly, absolu
Page 135 and 136: "It is the biggest room in all this
Page 137 and 138: Almost under our feet, shot up the
Page 139 and 140: "This food will help thee to die,"
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She gave the candle to her husband,
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With measured tread along the path,
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And as I sat, there grew in me such
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and I thought I had heard the song
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me, as to him that made me, all in
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"Then remember, and recall. Trials
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He embraced Lona his child, put an
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"The black bat is flown!" said Mara
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tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepia
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I had seen the lightning, but heard
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"But whence first into thy dark sel
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