]; so he's waiting in the entry."
Then the Lord God was rejoiced. "Call Satan in!" he ordered. "I know
that rogue perfectly well, and he has come in the very nick of time. A
scamp like that will be sure to think of something."
Satan came in. His face was as black as tanned calfskin, his voice was
hoarse, and a long tail hung down from under his overcoat.
"If you so order," he says, "I'll distribute your calamities for you
with my own hands."
"Go ahead with your distribution," says the Lord God; "nobody shall
hinder you."
"Will you permit me," Satan says, "to bring about an invasion of
foreigners?"
The Lord God shook his finger at Satan and cried: "Is that all you can
think of? And you so wise!"
"Excuse me," Satan says. "Why doesn't my plan show wisdom?"
"Because," replies the Lord God, "you propose to afflict the people with
war, and war is just what they want. They're all the time fighting among
themselves, one people with another, and that's the very thing I want to
punish them for.
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