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CH. IX
THE LABYRINTHODON
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bly calm. It might indeed have been Coote himself there, Coote, the unassuming, cutting them dead…
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And in due course these two simple souls married, and Venus Urania, the Goddess of Wedded Love, the Goddess of Tolerant Kindliness or Meeting Half Way, to whom all young couples should pray and offer sacrifices of self, who is indeed a very great and noble and kindly goddess, was in some manner propitiated, and bent down and blessed them in their union.
END OF BOOK II.
