[The Secret Power by Marie Corelli]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret Power CHAPTER VIII 9/16
But a butterfly has the advantage--it comes to LIFE, to use its wings!" "Quite true, Monsieur Gaspard!" and Morgana gave him a smile as sunny as his own.
"But what is life? Is it not a composition of many elements? And should we not learn to combine such elements to vitalise our 'White Eagle'? It is possible!" "With God all things are possible!" quoted the Marchese Rivardi--"But with man--" "We are taught that God made man 'in His image.
In the image of God created He him.' If this is true, all things should be possible to man"-- said Morgana, quietly--"To man,--and to that second thought of the Creator--Woman! And we mustn't forget that second thoughts are best!" She laughed, while the man called Gaspard stared at her and laughed also for company.
"Now let me see how I shall be housed in air!" and with very little assistance she climbed into the great bird-shaped vessel through an entrance so deftly contrived that it was scarcely visible,--an entrance which closed almost hermetically when the ship was ready to start, air being obtained through other channels. Once inside it was easy to believe in Fairyland.
Not a scrap of any sort of mechanism could be seen.
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