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It was one morning while visiting these women that I met an aged heathen, a person of uncommon mind, who had been and still was a most devout Buddhist: "Don't tell me. I can't learn your prayer. I'm too old. Your Jesus don't know me. I've worshipped Gaudama. I've done good. I've fed the priests. I've built a kyoung. If I take another now I shall fall between the two. No, no. Let me alone. I am an old woman. If I am lost, I am lost."
-"Hush! hush!" she cried, as we continued pleading: "Tell me not," she exclaimed in a loud voice: "Tell me not. Had I heard when young I might have believed, but Loonbie! Loonbie!--_too late, too late_."