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“I am dying,’ she said. ‘I want you to paint the goddess on my hand. When I go to that other land I shall hold up my hand—’ she held it up ‘and greet her. She has given me a good life.’… ‘Aye,’ said the old woman. ‘Imoy, there she is. Here we paint her looking down to see us, but this is better. Her eyes are open, she will know me.”

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