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Post by kg00ds on Jan 19, 2006 19:00:20 GMT -5
"It happened one day that a party of youngsters found themselves on the brink of one of these pools, in the very centre of the lake. It was a rocky basin of considerable depth. Looking in, they saw at the bottom something that shone yellow in the sun. A little boy jumped in and dived for it. It was a plate of gold, covered with writing. They carried it to the king.
"On one side of it stood these words:
'Death alone from death can save.
Love is death, and so is brave.
Love can fill the deepest grave.
Love loves on beneath the wave.'
"Now this was enigmatical enough to the king and courtiers. But the reverse of the plate explained it a little. Its contents amounted to this:
"If the lake should disappear, they must find the hole through which the water ran. But it would be useless to try to stop it by any ordinary means. There was but one effectual mode.- The body of a living man could alone stanch the flow. The man must give himself of his own will; and the lake must take his life as it filled. Otherwise the offering would be of no avail. If the nation could not provide one hero, it was time it should perish.
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Post by Tegid on Jan 19, 2006 19:27:44 GMT -5
Okay on that. Now it's your turn to ask --
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 19, 2006 19:36:17 GMT -5
Who said "GM must be the grandfather of us all"?
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Post by Tegid on Jan 20, 2006 3:47:52 GMT -5
Ah, that would be our November trivia author, Madeleine L'Engle!
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 20, 2006 3:55:36 GMT -5
correct what do you got?
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Post by Tegid on Jan 20, 2006 8:54:14 GMT -5
Augustus cautioned Alice about something that later came to pass. What was that?
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 22, 2006 4:46:17 GMT -5
OK so I tried to give others a shot...no takers eh? fine then Here is the answer(sorry its so long I am really tired - good night "But just listen to me first, Alice," said Mr. Greatorex. "I've had something to do with wills in my time, and I can assure you it is not likely to be less than a year before you can touch the money. You had much better stay where you are till your uncle's affairs are settled. You don't know what may happen. There's many a slip between cup and lip, you know." The moment she entered, she fell on her knees at the foot of the couch on which her mistress lay, covered her face with her hands, and sobbed grievously. Nor was the change more remarkable in her bearing than in her person. She was pale and worn, and had a hunted look - was in fact a mere shadow of what she had been. For a time her mistress found it impossible to quiet her so as to draw from her her story: tears and sobs combined with repugnance to hold her silent. "Oh, ma'am!" she burst out at length, wringing her hands, "how ever can I tell you? You will never speak to me again. Little did I think such a disgrace was waiting me!" "It was no fault of yours if you were misinformed," said her mistress, "or that your uncle was not the rich man you fancied." "Oh, ma'am, there was no mistake there! He was more than twice as rich as I fancied. If he had only died a beggar, and left things as they was!" "Then he didn't leave it to his nephews and nieces as they told you? Well, there's no disgrace in that." "Oh! but he did, ma'am: that was all right; no mistake there either, ma'am. - And to think o' me behavin' as I did - to you and master as was so good to me! Who'll ever take any more notice of me now, after what has come out - as I'm sure I no more dreamed on than the child unborn!" An agonized burst of fresh weeping followed, and it was with prolonged difficulty, and by incessant questioning, that Mrs. Greatorex at length drew from her the following facts. Before Alice and her brother could receive the legacy to which they laid claim, it was necessary to produce certain documents, the absence of which, as of any proof to take their place, led to the unavoidable publication of a fact previously known only to a living few - namely, that the father and mother of Alice Hopwood had never been married, which fact deprived them of the smallest claim on the legacy, and fell like a millstone upon Alice and her pride. From the height of her miserable arrogance she fell prone - not merely hurled back into the lowly condition from which she had raised her head only to despise it with base unrighteousness, and to adopt and reassert the principles she had abhorred when they affected herself - not merely this, but, in her own judgment at least, no longer the respectable member of society she had hitherto been justified in supposing herself.
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Post by Tegid on Jan 22, 2006 5:04:01 GMT -5
Okay, and now for your next question --
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 22, 2006 22:59:17 GMT -5
What belief was exposed as eraneous by the light of a candle?
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Post by Tegid on Jan 22, 2006 23:48:54 GMT -5
Phosy at first thought that the Christ Child was in the spare room, or that it was where everyone was expecting him to come. Then the light showed what she thought was a doll he might have left for her. Finally, when she brought it up next to the light of the candle, she saw that it was a real baby. (This actually substituted one erroneous belief with another, because she thought this baby was the child Jesus himself, just that morning born in her household.)
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 23, 2006 0:15:37 GMT -5
very, very correct your turn brother
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Post by Tegid on Jan 23, 2006 0:34:30 GMT -5
What caused Princess Makemnoit to be so upset with the king and queen, that she brought on the problems that followed with their child? (*ahem! -- Answer briefly in your own words, whoever you may be who answers it.*)
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 23, 2006 1:27:21 GMT -5
They didn't invite her to their childs christening.
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Post by Tegid on Jan 23, 2006 1:50:32 GMT -5
Alright! And now, the microphone passes to you --
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 23, 2006 2:07:52 GMT -5
Who knows the animals language?
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