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Angels and Women (1924)

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TEBAH AND ITS INMATES 217gift, which poor Aldeth had conveyed fromthe Palace--the last service of her devotedlife, who also now sleeps beneath the heavingbillows. The casket has never beenopened. I might now look upon its contents.With trembling fingers I pressed the spring.It unclosed; a soft perfume was exhaled <strong>and</strong>a light vapor passed from an ivory tabletwhich bore these words:Sigh with me, Aloma,Answer sigh by sigh;Drink with me, Aloma,The cup of ecstasy.Love with me, Aloma,Then shall bliss unknown,Born of angel’s passionEver be thine own.I raised the tablet, <strong>and</strong> beneath, upon asilken cushion, lay a diadem of rarest beauty--a wreath of silver lilies, exquisitelywrought <strong>and</strong> frosted snowy white. Dependingfrom the slender filaments were quiver-

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