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Red Eve

CHAPTER VI
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I think that many vaults and many churchyards, too, will ere long be filled with dead; also that the tomb of the Claverings at Blythburgh will soon be opened.

Mayhap the end of this world draws near to all men, as surely it draws near to you and me.

I know not--yet truth was in your lips just now, and in mine as well, I think.

Oh, man, man!" he went on after a pause, "appeal not unto the world's Caesar lest Caesar render different judgment to that which you desire.

Get you home, and on your knees appeal unto God to forgive you your proud, vengeance-seeking heart.
Sickness draws near to you; death draws near to you, and after death, hell--or heaven.


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