Читать книгу The Complete Works of Algernon Blackwood. Novels, Short Stories, Horror Classics, Occult & Supernatural Tales, Plays онлайн

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'You yourself have not changed? '

She roared with laughter, till he felt that his question was really absurd.

'Of course not! How can I change? I'm always Nixie, wherever I am!'

'But you feel different?' he insisted.

'I feel better,' she answered, still laughing. 'I feel awfully jolly.' Then after a long pause he asked another question. It was really a question he was always asking in one form or another, only he had never yet put it so directly perhaps. He whispered it from a grave and solemn heart:

'Are you nearer to—God, do you think?'

It was a word he rarely used. In his conversations with the child on earth he had never once used it. She waited a long time before replying. Instinctively, very subtly, it came to him that she did not know exactly what he meant.

'I'm in and with Everything there is—Everywhere,' she said softly. 'And I couldn't possibly be nearer to anything than I am.'

More than that she could not explain, and Paul never asked similar questions again. He understood that they were really unanswerable.