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I don't know, first, why she should be so anxious to add another impression to the many we have received in this place; and, secondly, if she was, how she managed to mesmerise three average but totally different men into seeing the same things. My explanation is that you were deceived as to the likeness, which, mind you, I did not recognise; nor, apparently, did Bastin."
Here I may break into my personal narrative to say that this, by their own confession, proved to be true of two such various persons as Bastin and Bickley. "The truth, which I am sure it would be wrong to hide from you, Arbuthnot," said the former to me one day, "is that during your long illness I fell in love, I suppose that is the right word, with the Glittering Lady.
Only the three paralysed ones remained standing and rolling their eyes. The Sleeper beckoned to them with his thin finger, and they walked forward in step like soldiers. "Lift that man from the boat," he said, pointing to Bastin, "cut his bonds and those of the others." They obeyed with a wonderful alacrity. In a minute we stood at liberty and were pulling the grass gags from our mouths.
Mike and the Peetrees laughed aloud. 'Not a bit of it, said Burton. 'They're only bastin' their Joss! 'What's that? 'They're beatin' their god. They keep a few of them little pottery or wooden gods round, an' if things don't go quite as well as they think they ought to go, they up an' take it out o' the god just then on the job, by knocking splinters off him.
At any rate, she is a sweet and most gracious woman, apparently in the bloom of youth, and, to cut it short, I fell in love with her." "Like Bastin," I said. "Bastin!" exclaimed Bickley indignantly. "You don't mean to say that clerical oaf presumed well, well, after all, I suppose that he is a man, so one mustn't be hard on him.
And yet you are against me and set up your puny scruples as a barrier across my path of wisdom. Well, I tread them down, I go on my appointed way. But beware how you try to hold me back. If any one of you should attempt to come between me and my ends, know that I will destroy you all. Obey or die." "Well, he has had his chance and he won't take it," said Bastin in the silence that followed.
Tomorrow early I will call you when it is time for us to start upon our journey into the bowels of the earth." "I don't want to go any deeper than we are," said Bastin doubtfully. "I think that none of us want to go, Bastin," she answered with a sigh. "Yet go we must. I pray of you, anger the Lord Oro no more on this or any other matter.
Yva asked again after a pause, for she also seemed to be impressed. "All who do not agree with Bastin's spiritual views," answered Bickley. "Those who, whether from lack of instruction or from hardness of heart, do not follow the true faith. For instance, I suppose that your father and you are heathen," replied Bastin stoutly.
Even our marvelous experiences could not keep Bickley and myself from sleeping, and on Bastin such things had no effect. He accepted them and that was all, much more readily than we did, indeed. Triple-armed as he was in the mail of a child-like faith, he snapped his fingers at evil spirits which he supposed the Sleepers to be, and at everything else that other men might dread.
Bastin accepted them as something out of the common, of course, but as facts which admitted of no discussion. After all, he said, the Old Testament told much the same story of people called the Sons of God who lived very long lives and ran after the daughters of men whom they should have left alone, and thus became the progenitors of a remarkable race.
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