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Let the high Muse chant loves Oly of nify even your ugly

furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown lass or extensive surface of

polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and

ainst it a

lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! the scratches will

seee themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round

that little sun It is de

everywhere impartially and it is only your candle which produces the

flattering illusion of a concentric arrange with

an exclusive optical selection These things are a parable The

scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now

absent--of Miss Vincy, for example Rosamond had a Providence of her

oho had kindly irls, and who

seeed Fred's illness and Mr Wrench's ate within effective proxieo away to Stone Court or elsewhere, as her parents wished her to do,