Also I do not think that he knows anything of Ayesha and her destiny." "So would I," I answered, "though perhaps he is right after all.

Who can tell?
Moreover, what is the use of reasoning?
Leo, we have no choice; we follow our fate.

To what that fate may lead us we shall learn in due season." Then we went to rest, for it was late, though I found little sleep that night.

The warnings of the ancient abbot, good and learned man as he was, full also of ripe experience and of the foresighted wisdom that is given to such as he, oppressed me deeply.

He promised us sorrow and bloodshed beyond the mountains, ending in death and rebirths full of misery.