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Green Mansions

CHAPTER XIV
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"Ah, Nuflo, old man, you have lived long, and got much experience, but not insight--not that inner vision that sees further than the eyes." "No, not that--I know what you mean," he answered.

Then, tossing his hand towards the sky, he added: "The knowledge you speak of comes from there." The girl had been listening with keen interest, glancing from one to the other.

"What!" she spoke suddenly, as if unable to keep silence, "do you think, grandfather, that SHE tells me--when there is danger--when the rain will cease--when the wind will blow--everything?
Do I not ask and listen, lying awake at night?
She is always silent, like the stars." Then, pointing to me with her finger, she finished: "HE knows so many things! Who tells them to HIM ?" "But distinguish, Rima.

You do not distinguish the great from the little," he answered loftily.

"WE know a thousand things, but they are things that any man with a forehead can learn.


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