Hess? It’s notice with an l in it! Now i do know that doesn’t sound attainable, does it? but low follows loving. What do you think that? And what lies so snugly among truism and actually? Trull! That’s right—truth is a strumpet. What do you think that? sure, Mrs. Hess, notice with an l in it. The universe, the cosmos, is just caught with legislation all over the place like a billing submit, and none of them makes any feel. W or D—that’s the foremost. Why, inform me, why, whilst you’ve positioned counters jointly on a sq., are you secure in pachisi? That’s simply the way in which Parcheesi’s performed, correct? yet peek and peel, Mrs. Hess. Evidential, evil, evil eye, evince. So I take them hit and miss as they arrive, bare of their connections. Womb and tomb. What do you're thinking that? I commence with a be aware. i am going up or down. and that i construe. Celiac, celibacy, celibate, mobile. There’s a ask yourself in Webster for each ask yourself on this planet … after which a few. net is in Webster, incidentally. net and west. See? Sedulous, sedum, see, and seed. keep on with me. Mrs. Hess, now, what follows you? Hessian: a rough sacking of hemp or jute. subsequent: a two-winged fly or midge. Hest: a command or principle. So. A pledge. Hester—adultress. yet goddess of the hearth—Hestia. What do those phrases inform me? What am I studying? Hesychast: one in all a sect of mystics. Ah. Hetaera. frequently slaves. I lay them out as a few do playing cards. And sooner than card comes cancer—carcinoma. What do you're thinking that? Ash bash funds sprint gash hash lash mash nash (OK, however the guy, the auto) rash sash wash. confident. take heed to what occurs to the sound of wash. Now we’re at bosh cosh gosh nosh posh … cease. Mark this, mark this, Professor emblems stated along with his common enthusiasm, realize this conjunction: wive, wivern, and wizard. after all, there’s wive swive too. pay attention, Mrs. Hess, don’t child me, are you one of many pageant? Then wizened, he went on, fastening her with a pointy smile. Your genuine identify is Gelvin, Ella stated. i do know you. i used to be Ella Bend. You promote sneakers and use grease in your head and prefer to think toes. i do know you. You’re my Phil and also you made a fist at my father. Madame Betz used to be more adept, there has been doubtless approximately it. She used a crystal, yet her weak point used to be conjuring, and once Ella had stepped within the trailer, Madame Betz all started the conjuration of Thursday. It went on and on: Cados, Cados, Cados, Eschereie, Eschereie, Eschereie, Hatim, Ya—name after name—Cantine, Jaym, Janic, Auie, Calbot, Sabbad, Berisay, Alnaym—until angels, stars, and planets have been invoked and Adonay Himself used to be known as upon—Na Nim Nim Na—to deliver Schiel, an excellent angel who used to be the executive ruler of Thursday, sure in a coil of greenish smoke, forcefully into her globe. The spell proved to be robust, yet Ella didn’t imagine she may well bring it to mind all, and while she instructed Madame Betz that what she fairly sought after used to be to be rid of her presents, Madame Betz was once nervous and despatched her away. Ella continued, however. She got here again many times. Isn’t there an individual you can find who would prefer them—someone i may provide them to, Ella begged. A Clara? My neighbor’s identify. No, no—no one—of direction now not, Madame Betz had stated, your presents aren’t organs you will get useless and donate.