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| 2 | 266 | He had not spoken to me of my View more quotes about role">role or destiny, whatever it was to be. |
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| 2 | 263 | My father had finished speaking. |
| 2 | 264 | He rose and gripped me by the shoulders, held me for a moment and smiled. |
| 2 | 265 | Then silently the door in the wall slid aside, and he strode from the room. |
| 2 | 266 | He had not spoken to me of my role or destiny, whatever it was to be. |
| 2 | 267 | He did not wish to discuss the reason for which I had been brought to the Counter-Earth, nor did he explain to me the comparatively minor mysteries of the envelope and its strange letter. |
| 2 | 268 | Most keenly perhaps, I missed that he had not spoken to me of himself, for I wanted to know him, that kindly, remote stranger whose bones were in my body, whose blood flowed in mine—my father. |
| 2 | 269 | * * * * I now inform you that what I write of my own experience I know to be true, and that what I have accepted on authority I believe to be true, but I shall not be offended if you disbelieve, for I, too, in your place, would refuse to believe. |