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Updated: May 22, 2025
There he saw the same star that had peered at him through the window of his study at Carlton House Terrace, the same that had sparkled out in the sky the night that he and Matt Peke had trudged the road together, and which Matt had described as "the love-star, an' it'll be nowt else in these parts till the world-without-end-amen!"
"They prayed, an' the butter-fires blazed up an' the incense turned everything blue, an' between that an' the fires the women looked as tho' they were all ablaze an' twinklin'. They took hold av the she-god's knees, they cried out an' they threw themselves about, an' that world-without-end-amen music was dhrivin' thim mad.
"The love-star's allus up early o' nights to give the men an' maids a chance!" "Yes, Venus is the evening star just now," rejoined Helmsley, half-absently. "Stow Venus! That's a reg'lar fool's name," said Peke surlily. "Where did ye git it from? That aint no Venus, that's just the love-star, an' it'll be nowt else in these parts till the world-without-end-amen!" Helmsley made no answer.
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