"I will."
"She is so good and simple and pure. O, Angel--I wish you would
marry her if you lose me, as you will do shortly. O, if you would!"
"If I lose you I lose all! And she is my sister-in-law."
"That's nothing, dearest. People marry sister-laws continually about
Marlott; and 'Liza-Lu is so gentle and sweet, and she is growing
so beautiful. O, I could share you with her willingly when we are
spirits! If you would train her and teach her, Angel, and bring her
up for your own self! ... She had all the best of me without the bad
of me; and if she were to become yours it would almost seem as if
death had not divided us... Well, I have said it. I won't mention
it again."
She ceased, and he fell into thought. In the far north-east sky he
could see between the pillars a level streak of light. The uniform
concavity of black cloud was lifting bodily like the lid of a pot,
letting in at the earth's edge the coming day, against which the
towering monoliths and trilithons began to be blackly defined.
"Did they sacrifice to God here?" asked she.
"No," said he.
"Who to?"
"I believe to the sun. That lofty stone set away by itself is in the
direction of the sun, which will presently rise behind it.
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