Again I [Howard Colby Ives] was alone with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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Again I [Howard Colby Ives] was alone with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá . . . The room was very still. No sound came from the street nor from the lower rooms. The silence deepened as He regarded me with that loving, all-embracing, all-understanding look which always melted my heart. A deep content and happiness flooded my being. A little flame seemed lit within my breast. And then ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spoke.
Source: Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh v 3, p. 341
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