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# The Dragon's Teeth., part 2 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/101/) — He therefore repressed his sorrow, and listened to her last words.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/102/) — "Dearest Cadmus," said she, "thou hast been the truest son that ever mother had, and faithful to the very last.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/103/) — Who else would have borne with my infirmities as thou hast!
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/104/) — It is owing to thy care, thou tenderest child, that my grave was not dug long years ago, in some valley, or on some hillside, that lies far, far behind us.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/105/) — It is enough.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/106/) — Thou shalt wander no more on this hopeless search.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/107/) — But, when thou hast laid thy mother in the earth, then go, my son, to Delphi, and inquire of the oracle what thou shalt do next."
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/108/) — "O mother, mother," cried Cadmus, "couldst thou but have seen my sister before this hour!"
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/109/) — "It matters little now," answered Telephassa, and there was a smile upon her face. "
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/110/) — I go now to the better world, and, sooner or later, shall find my daughter there."

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