Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 20
all was grayupon their shoulders, they could not havedivined what was the image which came forthto mock me! It was my soul. For as I leaped in the airto catch my hood, the wizard had caught mysoul from me and fixed it there within theawful black-box-which-has-an-eye! But I waschanged so that my own… … THE RED LIGHT the sky when menwalk upon rivers andthe flowers die. Allwas like nothing I ever saw.Then did the wizard wash the flat piece in aspring that came from the rock near at hand,and he did wash and wash again, until even theweariness of the rocking was not so long. Thendid he soak the piece…
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