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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: use them, and perchance she would forget her oaths, and following
some new star of love, for a little while vanish with you out of
my reach. Be in the sepulchre at the hour of sundown on the
second day from this, all three of you, if you would continue to
live upon the earth. Afterwards you shall learn my will and make
your choice between Yva with majesty and her loss with death."
Then suddenly he was gone.
Next morning I told the others what had passed, and we talked
the matter over. The trouble was, of course, that Bickley did not
believe me. He had no faith in my alleged interviews with Oro,
which he set down to delusions of a semi-mesmeric character. This
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