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Angels and Women (1924)

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GREATERCHANGEBalonia.Palace of Light, North Tower.OFourth Moon ,INCREDIBLE mutation of human affairsI One month ago I was an orphanchild, laboring unknown <strong>and</strong> uncared forin a lonely forest. Now I am the daughterof a queen, in a marble palace, attended byslaves, looking out from the midst of sumptuousappointments upon the splendors ofthe richest city in the world. Day is justbreaking--the hour when we were wont tocommence our daily toil, that we might restthrough the hot <strong>and</strong> drowsy hour of noontide.But here night is turned into day, <strong>and</strong>in the glare of ten thous<strong>and</strong> lamps feasting<strong>and</strong> revelry fill up the passing hours. I havejust returned from such a scene; but beforesleep seals mine eyes I must record theevents of the last few fateful days.After Hesperus left me in the cypressgrove,I turned away <strong>and</strong> w<strong>and</strong>ered alone75

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