there was no bottom to it."
The lady smiled a pleased, satisfied smile, and was silent also for a
few moments. Then she said--
"Any time you want a bath, come to me. I know you have a bath every
morning, but sometimes you want one at night too."
"Thank you, grandmother; I will--I will indeed," answered Irene, and
was
again silent for some moments thinking. Then she said, "How was it,
grandmother, that I saw your beautiful lamp--not the light of it
only--but the great round silver lamp itself, hanging alone in the great
open air high up? It was your lamp I saw--wasn't it?"
"Yes, my child; it was my lamp."
"Then how was it? I don't see a window all round."
"When I please, I can make the lamp shine through the walls--shine so
strong that it melts them away from before the sight, and shows itself
as you saw it. But, as I told you, it is not everybody can see it."
Madhuri Noah
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