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Septimus

CHAPTER V
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She took refuge in jest.
"I thought you had decided that my mission was to help you slay the dragon ?" "We have to decide on our missions for ourselves," said he.
"Don't you think it sufficient Purpose for a woman who has been in a gray prison all her life--when she finds herself free--to go out and see all that is wonderful in scenery like this, in paintings, architecture, manners, and customs of other nations, in people who have other ideas and feelings from those she knew in prison?
You speak as if you're finding fault with me for not doing anything useful.

Isn't what I do enough?
What else can I do ?" "I don't know," said Sypher, looking at the back of his gloves; then he turned his head and met her eyes in one of his quick glances.

"But you, with your color and your build and your voice, seem somehow to me to stand for Force--there's something big about you--just as there's something big about me--Napoleonic--and I can't understand why it doesn't act in some particular direction." "Oh, you must give me time," cried Zora.

"Time to expand, to find out what kind of creature I really am.

I tell you I've been in prison.


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