So loving each other, _we_ do not fear to die, because we believe, we know, that that in us which thinks, and feels, and loves will live; that in death we lay aside the body as we lay aside our worn-out clothing.

If I thought otherwise, Eunane, I could not bear _this_ parting." She clasped my hands, almost as much surprised and touched, I thought, for the moment by the expression of an affection of which till that hour neither of us were fully aware, as by the marvellous and incredible assurance she had heard.
"Ah!" she said, "I have heard her people are strange, and they dream such things.

No, Clasfempta, it is a fancy, or you say it to comfort me, not because it is true." The expression of terror that again came over her face was too painful for endurance.

To calm that terror I would have broken every oath, have risked every penalty.

But in truth I could never have paused to ask what in such a case oath or law permitted, "Listen, Eunane," I said, "and be calm.