[The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Jewel of Seven Stars CHAPTER XVIII 14/26
Beyond it lay the vast of Divine wisdom, and Divine power! When we came back to the cave, Mr.Trelawny took up another theme: "We have now to settle definitely the exact hour at which the Great Experiment is to be made.
So far as science and mechanism go, if the preparations are complete, all hours are the same.
But as we have to deal with preparations made by a woman of extraordinarily subtle mind, and who had full belief in magic and had a cryptic meaning in everything, we should place ourselves in her position before deciding. It is now manifest that the sunset has an important place in the arrangements.
As those suns, cut so mathematically by the edge of the sarcophagus, were arranged of full design, we must take our cue from this.
Again, we find all along that the number seven has had an important bearing on every phase of the Queen's thought and reasoning and action.
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