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The Alkahest

CHAPTER VI
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"This is what I learn from the books your mania has constrained me to read.

Analyze fruits, flowers, Malaga wine; you will discover, undoubtedly, that their substances come, like those of your water-cress, from a medium that seems foreign to them.

You can, if need be, find them in nature; but when you have them, can you combine them?
can you make the flowers, the fruits, the Malaga wine?
Will you have grasped the inscrutable effects of the sun, of the atmosphere of Spain?
Ah! decomposing is not creating." "If I discover the magistral force, I shall be able to create." "Will nothing stop him ?" cried Pepita.

"Oh! my love, my love! it is killed! I have lost him!" She wept bitterly, and her eyes, illumined by grief and by the sanctity of the feelings that flooded her soul, shone with greater beauty than ever through her tears.
"Yes," she resumed in a broken voice, "you are dead to all.

I see it but too well.


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