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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87

They Heard a Crash

They Heard a Crash,

and, looking back, discovered that this narrow neck of land had fallen into the sea. The mirage had disappeared, and there were naught but rocks and sand, and then the Supreme Brahma cursed them both to the lowest hell.

Then it was that the man spoke—and I have liked him ever since for it—"Curse me, but curse not her; it was not her fault, it was mine."

That's the kind of man to start a world with.

The Supreme Brahma said, "I will save her but not thee." And then spoke out of her fullness of love, out of a heart in which there was love enough to make all her daughters rich in holy affection, and said, "If thou wilt not spare him, neither spare me. I do not wish to live without him, I love him." Then the Supreme Brahma said—and I have liked him ever since I read it—" I will spare you both and watch over you and your children for ever."

Honour bright, is not that the better and grander story?

And in that same book I find this, "Man is strength, woman is beauty; man is courage, woman is love. When the one man loves the one woman, and the one page 11 woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy."