Eothen By A. W. Kingslake

































 -   The coincidence amused me faintly,
but I could not pluck up the least hope that the effect which I had - Page 203
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The Coincidence Amused Me Faintly, But I Could Not Pluck Up The Least Hope That The Effect Which I Had Experienced Was Anything Other Than An Illusion, An Illusion Liable To Be Explained (As Every Illusion Is In These Days) By Some Of The Philosophers Who Guess At Nature's Riddles.

It would have been sweeter to believe that my kneeling mother by some pious enchantment had asked, and found, this spell to rouse me from my scandalous forgetfulness of God's holy day, but my fancy was too weak to carry a faith like that.

Indeed, the vale through which the bells of Marlen send their song is a highly respectable vale, and its people (save one, two, or three) are wholly unaddicted to the practice of magical arts.

After the fifth day of my journey I no longer travelled over shifting hills, but came upon a dead level, a dead level bed of sand, quite hard, and studded with small shining pebbles.

The heat grew fierce; there was no valley nor hollow, no hill, no mound, no shadow of hill nor of mound, by which I could mark the way I was making. Hour by hour I advanced, and saw no change - I was still the very centre of a round horizon; hour by hour I advanced, and still there was the same, and the same, and the same- -the same circle of flaming sky - the same circle of sand still glaring with light and fire. Over all the heaven above, over all the earth beneath, there was no visible power that could balk the fierce will of the sun:

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