“My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.”

— H. Rider Haggard , book Ayesha

Ayesha: The Return of She (1905), CHAPTER I, THE DOUBLE SIGN

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