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There was a pause for a few moments, and then the low insidious sound was repeated.
The unjust He casts from Him, crying in His offended majesty: _Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels._ O, what agony then for the miserable sinners!
Here and there, especially at first, the inundation started on them and swept by; but when they had done descending, and were winding and climbing up a tower, they were alone.
Every plant and flower and vegetable and animal has been so refined by ages of careful, scientific cultivation and breeding that the like of them on Earth dwindled into pale, gray, characterless nothingness by comparison.
