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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Volume 3

Chapter 4 No.4

Word Count: 954    |    Released on: 04/12/2017

were changed; but Orville could not understand just in what the change consisted. In Thornton and Marion the change was not good to look at, and Orville somehow felt that it was beco

g, like his companions. Several seemed to be about to begin a journey and were moving away from the groups, most of them alone. Some had burdens strapped to their shoulders and bent un

could see men and women far above on that road, dragging themselves along painfully. Another road led down into a valley; but Orville could not see deep into that valley, because of a haze which hung over

e said; all the time marveling that it was

nd answered: "It means,

shocked nor startled. "Dead? I do not quit

over the bridge a minute ago. Our bodie

" asked

not know, sir, except that we

ow a great deal, Mi

was dead on my seat when we struck the chain and broke it. One learns much in a

on the very summit and seemingly at the end of the r

chael," he said. Michael a

can see it, and what is more, I am going up to it; let us not delay an instant"

There was a something urging him on. His whole being was filled with a

Michael. "Do the others s

ooking down into the haze of the valley. Th

o the girl, as he pointed to the r

ot there. Look up at the m

n glanced upward. "I se

repellant-looking," said Thornton.

d out: "Marion, you wil

saying to Orville: "I can not go there with you-not upward. I must enter the valley with him." She mo

d her on earth. Why am I un

hed the road, they turned

the Dead. There are stranger partings here; but all of t

en their feet touched the road they turned and looked their terror. Suddenly they recoiled and struck viciously at

ood out so that he could see plainly, and they were: "THE R

here, who would not see it on earth. It repel

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