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After all, Alima was his wife, you know," I urged, feeling at the moment a sudden burst of sympathy for poor Terry. For a man of his temperament and habits it must have been an unbearable situation. But Ellador, for all her wide intellectual grasp, and the broad sympathy in which their religion trained them, could not make allowance for such to her sacrilegious brutality.
After marriage there arose in us a somewhat unexpected urge of feeling that called for a separate house; but this feeling found no response in the hearts of those fair ladies. "We ARE alone, dear," Ellador explained to me with gentle patience.
As I looked into these methods and compared them with our own, my strange uncomfortable sense of race-humility grew apace. Ellador could not understand my astonishment. She explained things kindly and sweetly, but with some amazement that they needed explaining, and with sudden questions as to how we did it that left me meeker than ever.
While we ate the excellent biscuits they had thrown us, and while Ellador kept a watchful eye on our movements, Celis ran off to some distance, and set up a sort of "duck-on-a-rock" arrangement, a big yellow nut on top of three balanced sticks; Alima, meanwhile, gathering stones.
If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us." This set me thinking in good earnest. I had always imagined simply from hearing it said, I suppose that women were by nature conservative. Yet these women, quite unassisted by any masculine spirit of enterprise, had ignored their past and built daringly for the future. Ellador watched me think.
"Why should I want to go back to all our noise and dirt, our vice and crime, our disease and degeneracy?" he demanded of me privately. We never spoke like that before the women. "I wouldn't take Celis there for anything on earth!" he protested. "She'd die! She'd die of horror and shame to see our slums and hospitals. How can you risk it with Ellador?
"All things considered," they said, and they did not say a hundredth part of the things they were considering, "we are unwilling to expose our country to free communication with the rest of the world as yet. If Ellador comes back, and we approve her report, it may be done later but not yet. Jeff was perfectly satisfied. He thought they were quite right. He always did.
"How long?" asked Ellador, rather unexpectedly. "How long?" I repeated, a little dashed. "Why as long as they live." "There is something very beautiful in the idea," she admitted, still as if she were discussing life on Mars. "This climactic expression, which, in all the other life-forms, has but the one purpose, has with you become specialized to higher, purer, nobler uses.
While Terry and Alima struck sparks and parted he always madly drawn to her and she to him she must have been, or she'd never have stood the way he behaved Ellador and I had already a deep, restful feeling, as if we'd always had one another. Jeff and Celis were happy; there was no question of that; but it didn't seem to me as if they had the good times we did.
Life does go on forever, all about us." "But eternal life goes on WITHOUT DYING." "The same person?" "Yes, the same person, unending, immortal." I was pleased to think that I had something to teach from our religion, which theirs had never promulgated. "Here?" asked Ellador. "Never to die here?" I could see her practical mind heaping up the people, and hurriedly reassured her.
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