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The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine

CHAPTER XV
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Time is not tide, nor is tide time, and neither will wait for man.

Three things will happen.
A girl, young and handsome, will walk forth upon the highway, and there she will meet a man, young and handsome too, who will rise her to wealth, happiness and grandeur.

So be it, says the Book of Marriage, and amin, agin, says the Prophet.

Open a new leaf, says Nebbychodanazor, the divine; a new leaf in the Book of Judgment, and another in the Book of Death.

A man was killed and his body hid, and a man lived with his blood upon him.


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