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Title: Sacred allegories
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Adams, William, 1814-1848
Subjects: Bible Allegories Ethics in the Bible Christian life Christian ethics
Publisher: London : Rivingtons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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to her companionsgarments and her own. In this wretched way they kept walking side by side, until theycame to the borders of a great wood, and there Selfdeceit bade hercompanion go first, saying that she would follow; but Waywarddrew back, and refused to advance farther before he had firstconsulted his cross. I do not know why at that particular momenthe should have paused; it may be that it merely proceeded fromhis usual dislike to go first; or it may be he was frightened bya deep and angry sound, even as the roaring of a lion, whichissued from the wood, and yet his ears had now grown so dull,that I cannot tell whether he heard it at all; and I think it mostlikely that he only delayed, because the scene brought back to hismemory the hour in which he had stood with Mirth, at the entranceof the myrtle-grove, when the holy image had warned them both THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. 51 to turn, aside, But be the cause what it may, he stood still, anddrew his long-neglected cross from his bosom.
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It was, indeed, a scene that caused my heart to beat high withinterest. Wayward was standing a little in advance of Selfdeceit, 52 THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. and one step more would have brought him within the borders ofthe wood; and, as he raised his cross with a trembling hand, Icould see a smile of mockery pass over the countenance of hiscompanion. In a moment the meteor lights were flickering in theair around them, and a crowd of confused and ghastly shadows fellat the feet of the bewildered boy. He had suffered his eyes tobecome so very dim, that it was in vain he now endeavoured todistinguish the true image from the false: but I observed thatfrom that very uncertainty he hesitated whether to advance; andI believe at last he would have turned aside, had not Selfdeceitwith her own hand lighted a torch behind him, which threw onelong deep shadow in the direction of the forest. Then Waywardventured to move forward; but scarce had he made the first step,when there was a laugh as of fie

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