moriam

Updated: May 24, 2025

To keep up our spirits we indulged in a choral performance of the duet from Norma, "Moriam' insieme," holding each other's hands the while, to ensure our being spared by death or dying all four in company. But the colonel did not fail to frighten us nearly out of our lives. We were already half way up to the cave when he made a false step, staggered, lost hold of my hand, and rolled over the edge.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan