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	Out in the Storm 75
	glorious of trumpet-ejaculations without the defiance in it; like the sound of falling- water without the clatter and clash in it: it was like all of them and neither of them—all of them without their faults, each of them without its peculiarity: after all, it was more like his
	mother's voice than anything else in the world. " Diamond, dear," she said, "beaman. What is fearful to you is not the least fearful to me." "But it can't hurt you," murmured Diamond, " for you're it" " Then if I'm it, and have you in my arms, how can it hurt you?" "Oh yes! I
	see," whispered Diamond. "But it looks so dreadful, and it pushes me about so." "Yes, it does, my dear. That is what it was sent for." At the same moment, a peal of thunder which shook Diamond's heart against the sides of his bosom hurtled out of the heavens: I cannot say out of the sky, for