For those who see with the eyes of the soul and stretch out their hands to grasp there is all.

Even Bastin will tell you this." "But," I said, "life is short.

Those worlds are far away, and you are near." She became wonderful, mysterious.
"Near I am far," she said; "and far I am near, if only this love of yours is strong enough to follow and to clasp.

And, Humphrey, it needs strength, for here I am afraid that it will bear little of such fruit as men desire to pluck." Again terror took hold of me, and I looked at her, for I did not know what to say or ask.
"Listen," she went on.

"Already my father has offered me to you in marriage, has he not, but at a price which you do not understand?
Believe me, it is one that you should never pay, since the rule of the world can be too dearly bought by the slaughter of half the world.