"I will tell you a story," said he.
"Sure," said Eileen, "I'd love to hear you, and I could listen to a story for a day and a night."
Mac Cann pulled solemnly at his pipe and regarded Finaun who was looking at him peacefully from a corner.
"You're full of fun," said he to the archangel.
CHAPTER XVI
Said Finaun:
"While generation succeeds generation a man has to fight the same fight. At the end he wins, and he never has to fight that battle again, and then he is ready for Paradise.
"Every man from the beginning has one enemy from whom he can never escape, and the story of his lives is the story of his battles with that enemy whom he must draw into his own being before he can himself attain to real being, for an enemy can never be crushed, but every enemy can be won.