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"To-day has come the fulfilment of my dream, Faith. I am given to my appointed task; I am set on a road of life in which there is no looking back. My dreams of the past are here begun in very truth and fact. When, in the night, I heard Uncle Benn calling, when in the Meeting-house voices said, 'Come away, come away, and labour, thou art idle,' I could hear my heart beat in the ardour to be off. Yet I knew not whither. Now I know.
"Last night the Prince Pasha called me to his Council, made me adviser, confidant, as one who has the ear of his captain -- after he had come to terms with me upon that which Uncle Benn left of land and gold. Think not that he tempted me.