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She finished reading, and rose from her chair; and there came four young men and they took away the chair and departed towards the East.
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And she called me to her, and she touched my breast and said to me: Did my reading please thee? And I say unto her: Lady, these last words please me, but the former were difficult and hard.
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And she said: These last words are for the righteous, but the former are for the heathen and the apostates. And while she was speaking, two men appeared and took her upon their arms and they departed where also the chair had gone, towards the East.