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"Certainly that is true," I said "The transcendental character hich woman wants to stamp love leads her to deception"

"But the world likewise demands it," Wanda interrupted "Look at this wo and has found a new admirer here She deceives all three and yet is honored by all and respected by the world"

"I don't care," I exclaimed, "but she is to leave you alone; she treats you like an article of commerce"

"Why not?" the beautiful woman interrupted vivaciously "Every woe out of her attractions, andone's self without love or pleasure because if you do it in cold blood, you can reap profit to best advantage"

"Wanda, what are you saying?"

"Why not?" she said, "and take note of what I am about to say to you Never feel secure with the woers in woood as their admirers and defenders maintain, nor as bad as their enemies make them out to be Woman's character is characterlessness The best woo down into the reatness and goodness and puts to shaood or so bad, but that at any moment she is capable of the most diabolical as well as of the hts, emotions, and actions In spite of all the advances of civilization, woman has remained as she cae, who is faithful or faithless,to the ihout history it has always been a serious deep culture which has produced moral character Man even when he is selfish or evil always follows principles, woet that, and never feel secure with the woman you love"

Her friend has left At last an evening alone with her again It seems as if Wanda had saved up all the love, which had been kept fro; never had she been so kind, so near, so full of tenderness

What happiness to cling to her lips, and to die away in her arms! In a state of relaxation and wholly ainst my breast, and with drunken rapture our eyes seek each other