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I liked her that day she balanced on the branch before me and named the trio. I thought of her most. Afterward I turned to her like a friend when we met for the third time, and continued the acquaintance. While Jeff's ultra-devotion rather puzzled Celis, really put off their day of happiness, while Terry and Alima quarreled and parted, re-met and re-parted, Ellador and I grew to be close friends.
You are more Christian than any people I ever saw. But how about death? And the life everlasting? What does your religion teach about eternity?" "Nothing," said Ellador. "What is eternity?" What indeed? I tried, for the first time in my life, to get a real hold on the idea. "It is never stopping." "Never stopping?" She looked puzzled. "Yes, life, going on forever." "Oh we see that, of course.
Ellador was brown: hair dark and soft, like a seal coat; clear brown skin with a healthy red in it; brown eyes all the way from topaz to black velvet they seemed to range splendid girls, all of them. They had seen us first of all, far down in the lake below, and flashed the tidings across the land even before our first exploring flight.
We had discussed at least Ellador and I had the conditions of The Great Adventure, and thought the path was clear before us. But there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing.
Again they laughed delightedly, and the one nearest me followed his tactics. "Celis," she said distinctly, pointing to the one in blue; "Alima" the one in rose; then, with a vivid imitation of Terry's impressive manner, she laid a firm delicate hand on her gold-green jerkin "Ellador." This was pleasant, but we got no nearer. "We can't sit here and learn the language," Terry protested.
And still further, there was about these women a colossal innocence upon which many of the things we did say had made no impression whatever. I am thus explicit about it because it shows how unexpectedly strong was the impression made upon Ellador when she at last entered our civilization. She urged me to be patient, and I was patient.
Ellador and I talked it all out together, so that we had an easier experience of it when the real miracle time came. Also, between us, we made things clearer to Jeff and Celis. But Terry would not listen to reason. He was madly in love with Alima. He wanted to take her by storm, and nearly lost her forever.
Of all this I learned more and more from their books, from talk, especially from Ellador. She was at first, for a brief moment, envious of her friend a thought she put away from her at once and forever. "It is better," she said to me. "It is much better that it has not come to me yet to us, that is. So we won't try again, dear, till it is safe will we?"
As for Ellador: Suppose you come to a strange land and find it pleasant enough just a little more than ordinarily pleasant and then you find rich farmland, and then gardens, gorgeous gardens, and then palaces full of rare and curious treasures incalculable, inexhaustible, and then mountains like the Himalayas, and then the sea.
We don't have to do things FOR them they don't need it, you know. But we have to live on splendidly because of them; and that's the way we feel about God." I meditated again. I thought of that God of Battles of ours, that Jealous God, that Vengeance-is-mine God. I thought of our world-nightmare Hell. "You have no theory of eternal punishment then, I take it?" Ellador laughed.
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