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'Now steer wherever you will,' he said, in a low voice 'Never mind the directness of the course--wherever you will' 'Shall it be Creston Shore?' she said, pointing to a stretch of beach northward from Budrasping the sculls She took the strings daintily, and they wound away to the left

For a long tiular dip of the oars, and their th spoke

'I o away to-morrow,' he said tentatively

'Yes,' she replied faintly

'To endeavour to advance a little in ain, with the same preoccupied softness

'But I shan't advance' 'Why not? Architecture is a bewitching profession They say that an architect's work is another e fro it I used to think it did; but it doesn't Those who get rich need have no skill at all as artists' 'What need they have?' 'A certain kind of energy which men with any fondness for art possess very seldo acquaintances, and a love for using the out, aftera few rudi that, do I seem a man likely to make a name?' 'You seeive toowhich is rather co the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful eniuses' 'Pretty subtle for a young lady,' he said slowly 'Froht experience' She passed over the idea 'Do try to succeed,' she said, istful thoughtfulness, leaving her eyes on hirove flushed a little at the earnestness of her words, and mused 'Then, like Cato the Censor, I shall do what I despise, to be in the fashion,' he said at last'Well, when I found all this out that I was speaking of, what ever do you think I did? Fro already loved verse passionately, I went on to read it continually; then I went rhy on earth ruins a man for useful occupation, and for content with reasonable success in a profession or trade, it is the habit of writing verses on emotional subjects, which had much better be left to die from want of nourishment' 'Do you write poems now?' she said