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The Abbey of Bliss
with her daughter and carried them out of the room, across the field, into a forest.
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Mahendra came there soon after, with milk, for his wife and child, in the pitcher he had carried. But there was no one in the room. He looked about, and then called aloud by his daughter's name and his wife's; no answer, no trace of any human soul could be found anywhere.
