large/3914/beast_in_jungle_1012_librivox_64kb_mp3/beastjungle_5_james_64kb_34
large/3914/beast_in_jungle_1012_librivox_64kb_mp3/beastjungle_5_james_64kb
English
3914
"It _has_ touched you," she went on. "It has done its office. It has made you all its own." IT HAS TOUCHED YOU SHE WENT ON IT HAS DONE ITS OFFICE IT HAS MADE YOU ALL ITS OWN
 was a claim to which he had so abjectly little to oppose. "You mean that it has come as a positive definite occurrence, with a name and a date?" "Positive. Definite. I don't know about the 'name,' but, oh with a date!" He found himself again too helplessly at sea. "But come in the night--come and passed me by?" May Bartram had her strange faint smile. "Oh no, it hasn't passed you by!" "But if I haven't been aware of it and it hasn't touched me--?" "Ah your not being aware of it"--and she seemed to hesitate an instant to deal with this--"your not being aware of it is the strangeness in the strangeness. It's the wonder _of_ the wonder." She spoke as with the softness almost of a sick child, yet now at last, at the end of all, with the perfect straightness of a sibyl. She visibly knew that she knew, and the effect on him was of something co-ordinate, in its high character, with the law that had ruled him. It was the true voice of the law; so on her lips would the law itself have sounded. FACE TO FACE WITH HER ONCE MORE HE BELIEVED HER IT WAS A CLAIM TO WHICH HE HAD SO ABJECTLY LITTLE TO OPPOSE YOU MEAN THAT IT HAS COME AS A POSITIVE DEFINITE OCCURRENCE WITH A NAME AND A DATE POSITIVE DEFINITE I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE NAME BUT OH WITH A DATE HE FOUND HIMSELF AGAIN TOO HELPLESSLY AT SEA BUT COME IN THE NIGHT COME AND PASS ME BY MAY BARTRAM HAD HER STRANGE FAINT SMILE OH NO IT HASN'T PASSED YOU BY BUT IF I HAVEN'T BEEN AWARE OF IT AND IT HASN'T TOUCHED ME AH YOU'RE NOT BEING AWARE OF IT AND SHE SEEMED TO HESITATE AN INSTANT TO DEAL WITH THIS YOUR NOT BEING AWARE OF IT IS THE STRANGENESS AND THE STRANGENESS IT'S THE WONDER OF THE WONDER SHE SPOKE AS WITH THE SOFTNESS ALMOST OF A SICK CHILD YET NOW AT LAST AT THE END OF ALL WITH THE PERFECT STRAITNESS OF A SYBIL SHE VISIBLY KNEW THAT SHE KNEW AND THE EFFECT ON HIM WAS OF SOMETHING CO ORDINATE IN ITS HIGH CHARACTER WITH THE LAW THAT HAD RULED HIM IT WAS THE TRUE VOICE OF THE LAW SO ON HER LIPS WOULD THE LAW ITSELF HAVE SOUNDED
large/3914/beast_in_jungle_1012_librivox_64kb_mp3/beastjungle_5_james_64kb
file
download/librilight/large/3914/beast_in_jungle_1012_librivox_64kb_mp3/beastjungle_5_james_64kb.flac