[When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookWhen the World Shook CHAPTER XXIV 18/37
What say you ?" She looked at me. "I say, Yva, that I am willing to go if you come with us.
Not otherwise." "I say," said Bickley, "that I want to see all this supernatural rubbish thoroughly exploded, and that therefore I should prefer to go on with the business." "And I say," said Bastin, "that my most earnest desire is to be clear of the whole thing, which wearies and perplexes me more than I can tell. Only I am not going to run away, unless you think it desirable to do so too, Lady Yva.
I want you to understand that I am not in the least afraid of the Lord Oro, and do not for one moment believe that he will be allowed to bring about disaster to the world, as I understand is his wicked object.
Therefore on the whole I am indifferent and quite prepared to accept any decision at which the rest of you may arrive." "Be it understood," said Yva with a little smile when Bastin had finished his sermonette, "that I must join my father in the bowels of the earth for a reason which will be made plain afterwards.
Therefore, if you go we part, as I think to meet no more.
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