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THE REAL MALAY

destiny and her relatives have chosen to unite her. Thus some fool persuades her that in his worship and passion she will find the World’s Desire, and it is only after perhaps a long and varied experience that she realizes that, having started for a voyage on the ocean, she finds herself seated at the bottom of a dry well.”

It is possible that thus she becomes with truth.

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