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Updated: May 23, 2025
Surely there can be no human being in a healthy state of nature who wishes to prolong his life; and as to riches, it is possible that anyone exists who really and honestly desires riches? Impossible! And requited love! Oh, Atam-or, you are mad to-day! You are always strange, but now you have quite taken leave of your senses. I cannot but love you, and yet I can never understand you.
As Almah said this she looked at me with an expression in which terror and anguish were striving with love. Her cheeks, which shortly before had flushed rosy red in sweet confusion, were now pallid, her lips ashen; her eyes were full of a wild despair. I looked at her in wonder, and could not say a word. "Oh, Atam-or," said she, "I am afraid of death!"
And now you cannot reproach me You have done this yourself, with your terrible power; and you have saved my life to let me die with you. You do not hate me, then, Atam-or, do you? Just speak once to a poor little girl, and say that you do not hate her!" All this was very pitiable.
He looked at me with a sweet and gentle smile. "I see it all," said he, in a low voice "you love her, Atam-or." I pressed his hands harder, but said nothing. Indeed, I could not trust myself to speak. "I knew it," said he; "it is but natural. You are both of a different race from us; you are both much alike, and in full sympathy with one another. This draws you together.
I was about saying something concerning the Kosekin alphabet or something else of an equally appropriate nature, when she prevented me. "Atam-or," said she, in a low voice. "Layelah," said I, with my mind full of confusion. "I love you!" She sat looking at me with her beautiful face all aglow her dark eyes fixed on mine with an intense and eager gaze. I looked at her and said not one single word.
I cannot bear to think of you at the sacrifice and for love of me meeting your death for I would die to save you, Atam-or." I pressed her closer in my arms. "Oh, Almah," said I, "I would die to save you! and if this ceremony will save you I will go through with it, and accept my fate whatever it may be." We were now interrupted.
It seemed at that moment as though I was not only false to her, but as if I was even endangering her life. My only thought now was to clear up my meaning. "Dear Layelah," said I, as I sat with her arms around me, and with my own around her slender waist, "I do not want to hurt your feelings." "Oh, Atam-or! oh, my love! never, never did I know such bliss as this."
In an instant Layelah revived from her gloom. She looked around, clapped her little hands, laughed aloud, and danced for joy. "Oh, Atam-or," she cried, "see see the trees, see the grass, the bushes! This is a land of wonder. As for food, you can call it down from the sky with your sepet-ram, or we can find it on the rocks.
"Atam-or," said he, "give me also the blessing of darkness and death!" At these strange words, following such actions, I could say nothing. I was more bewildered than ever, and horror and bewilderment made me dumb. I turned away and went aft to Almah, who had seen it all. She looked at me with an anxious gaze, as if to learn what the effect of all this had been on me.
"Why, if we were not born, how could we know the bliss of dying, or enjoy the sweetness of death? Death is the end of being the one sweet hope and crown and glory of life, the one desire and hope of every living man. The blessing is denied to none. Rejoice with me, oh Atam-or! you will soon know its blessedness as well as I." He turned away.
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