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destines you for an alliance almost royal. Lord Fermain Clancharlie,
this is the decisive moment. Destiny never opens one door without
shutting another. After a certain step in advance, to step back is
impossible. Whoso enters into transfiguration, leaves behind him
evanescence. My lord, Gwynplaine is dead. Do you understand?"
Gwynplaine trembled from head to foot.
Then he recovered himself.
"Yes," he said.
Barkilphedro, smiling, bowed, placed the casket under his cloak, and
left the room.
CHAPTER V.
WE THINK WE REMEMBER; WE FORGET.
Whence arise those strange, visible changes which occur in the soul of
man?
Gwynplaine had been at the same moment raised to a summit and cast into
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