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Lilith

CHAPTER VII
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THE CEMETERY.
The air as of an ice-house met me crossing the threshold.

The door fell-to behind us.

The sexton said something to his wife that made her turn toward us .-- What a change had passed upon her! It was as if the splendour of her eyes had grown too much for them to hold, and, sinking into her countenance, made it flash with a loveliness like that of Beatrice in the white rose of the redeemed.

Life itself, life eternal, immortal, streamed from it, an unbroken lightning.


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