The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: "Here you may sleep," she said, "if sleep you can, and eat of
the food that you have brought with you. Tomorrow early I will
call you when it is time for us to start upon our journey into
the bowels of the earth."
"I don't want to go any deeper than we are," said Bastin
doubtfully.
"I think that none of us want to go, Bastin," she answered with
a sigh. "Yet go we must. I pray of you, anger the Lord Oro no
more on this or any other matter. In your folly you tried to kill
him, and as it chanced he bore it well because he loves courage.
But another time he may strike back, and then, Bastin--"
 When the World Shook |