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| 23 | 40 | View more quotes about though">Though the full force of my will drove me to the mountains, though in the mountains the Priest-Kings waited for me, I could not yet go. |
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| 23 | 37 | How proudly and yet how marvelously she stood beside me. |
| 23 | 38 | I saw that she had picked a talender on the hill, and that she had placed it in her hair. |
| 23 | 39 | I shook my head. |
| 23 | 40 | Though the full force of my will drove me to the mountains, though in the mountains the Priest-Kings waited for me, I could not yet go. |
| 23 | 41 | It was unthinkable that I should take this girl into the Sardar to be destroyed as I would be destroyed, that I should devastate this young life so recently initiated into the glories of the senses, which had just awakened into the victories of life and feeling. |
| 23 | 42 | What could I balance against her—my honor, my thirst for vengeance, my curiosity, my frustration, my fury? I put my arm about her shoulder and led her down from the hillock. |
| 23 | 43 | She looked at me questioningly. |