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The Prelude to Adventure

CHAPTER XVI
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And then I don't know whether I can give you everything as it happened because it was all so unsubstantial and at the end of it any one might say 'But this is nothing--nothing at all.

You've been hysterical, nervous--that's the meaning of it.

You've nothing to show.' And yet if all the world were to say that to me I should still have no doubt.

I know, as I know that we are sitting here, as I know that I love you, that what I say is true." She brought her chair close to him and then put her band in his and waited.
"After I had killed Carfax--after his body had fallen and the wood was very silent, I was suddenly conscious of God.

I can't explain that better.


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