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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

CHAPTER CIII
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As They Sail As the canoes now glided across the lagoon, I gave myself up to reverie; and revolving over all that the men of Amma had rehearsed of the history of Yillah, I one by one unriddled the mysteries, before so baffling.

Now, all was made plain: no secret remaining, but the subsequent event of her disappearance.

Yes, Hautia! enlightened I had been but where was Yillah?
Then I recalled that last interview with Hautia's messengers, so full of enigmas; and wondered, whether Yoomy had interpreted aright.
Unseen, and unsolicited; still pursuing me with omens, with taunts, and with wooings, mysterious Hautia appalled me.

Vaguely I began to fear her.

And the thought, that perhaps again and again, her heralds would haunt me, filled me with a nameless dread, which I almost shrank from acknowledging.


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