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The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies,
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
King Saul, the first king of Israel, even named two of his sons after the god Baal—Eshbaal and Meribbaal—alongside the son he named after Yahweh: Yehonatan, or Jonathan.
And he himself, when faced with the knowledge that he was free to accept what was, had rejected the new opportunity. To seize it would have been to murder himself. The ghost of every humiliation he had ever suffered cried out against it. His murdered dreams and ambitions came back to eldritch life and asked if he could forget them so easily.
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