[The Mormon Prophet by Lily Dougall]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mormon Prophet CHAPTER XII 13/17
You live in some higher place.
You would have made this great sacrifice to help me." (She never doubted that Ephraim's proposal had been born in self-abnegation.) "Surely you can tell me what to do, for I am in great distress; but I want you first to remember that my husband is good, and that he loves me more than all the world, more than everything except God, and if he has told me a lie now, it must have been because he thought to save my soul by it, but I think--I think that the lie could not have been his.
I think it must have been Joseph Smith's." She spoke very wistfully. "What was it ?" he asked again, tender of the shock she had received, yet still confident that it would be his part to widen this breach. Looking down with burning cheeks, she told him what Halsey's story about Newell Knight's levitation had been.
She remembered it quite clearly and told it baldly. Before she finished it she heard him mutter below his breath that it was very strange.
She was surprised at his tone of perplexity. "It is very strange to me," she cried, "because I know my husband, and up till now he has been so upright and, except that he believed in Joseph Smith, so sensible and wise." "And is this all ?" asked Ephraim.
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