Oah, yes! But if he spoke it would mean that
all this world would end now--_instanto_--fall down on your head.
These things are not allowed, you know. As I said, the door is
shut."
"Not a ghost of a chance?"
"How can there be? You are a Christi-?n, and it is forbidden to
eat, in your books, of the Tree of Life, or else you would never die.
How shall you all fear death if you all know what your friend does
not know that he knows? I am afraid to be kicked, but I am not
afraid to die, because I know what I know. You are not afraid to be
kicked, but you are afraid to die. If you were not, by God! you
English would be all over the shop in an hour, upsetting the
balances of power, and making commotions. It would not be
good. But no fear. He will remember a little and a little less, and
he will call it dreams. Then he will forget altogether. When I
passed my First Arts Examination in Calcutta that was all in the
cram-book on Wordsworth. 'Trailing clouds of glory,' you know."
"This seems to be an exception to the rule."
"There are no exceptions to rules.
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