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I proposed this to her; she smiled sadly. "You forget," said she, "this season of light will not last much longer. In a few more joms the dark season will begin, and then we should perish in a place like this." "Are there no caverns here?" "Oh no. This country has no inhabitants. It is full of fierce wild beasts. We should be destroyed before one jom."
No more sunlight would now be visible, save at first for a few joms, when at certain times the glare would be seen shooting up above the icy crests of the mountains. Now the people all moved out of the caverns into the stone houses on the opposite side of the terraces, and the busy throng transferred themselves and their occupations to the open air.
You can do no good with it. You must not make it common. Keep it. The time may come when you will need it: you are not fond of death." I shuddered. "Never forget," she said, "that here death is considered the chief blessing. It is useless for you to interfere in their ways. You cannot change them." Some more joms passed.
Death, darkness, poverty, want, all that men most live and long for, are mine to satiety; and yet, as I look back and count the joms of my life to see in how many I have known happiness, I find that in all they amount to just seven! Oh, Atam-or, what a comment is this on the vanity of human life!" To this I had no answer ready; but by way of saying something, I offered to kill him on the spot.
In my despair I thought of my pistol and rifle, which I still kept with me of using these against my jailors, and bursting forth; but this wild impulse soon passed away, for its utter hopelessness was manifest. My only hope, if hope it was, lay in waiting, and it was not impossible that I might see Almah again, if only once. Joms passed away, I know not how.
Of time I had but a poor reckoning; but, from the way in which the paupers kept account of their joms, I judged that about three months had elapsed since the ceremony of separation. The paupers were now all joyous with a hideous joy. The Chief Pauper was more abhorrent than ever. He had the blood-thirst strong upon him.
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