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"Not so, O Macuh "When your

Watcher sowed my seed--if thus he did--he sowed the drea him back his oith the

flower and the fruit by way of interest But that is finished You

refuse the greatness Now, tellabout the: 'Sleep

there, O dreams; it is not your hour'--if I do this, and stand before

you just a woman who loves and ears by the spirits of her fathers

never to think or do that which has not your blessing--will you love me

a little, Macumazahn?"

Noas silent, for she had driven me to the last ditch, and I knew

not what to say Moreover, I will confess irl with the "fire in her heart," this woman who

was different from all other women that I had ever known, sees and to be drawing

htin the Black Kloof, and seelided up to me, she threw her arms about me and kissed me on the

lips, and I think I kissed her back, but really I am not sure what I

did or said, forin