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"No, it does not follow," Juventius protested in all seriousness,

while the child flashed a look of intense a white hands, "none should trifle with

races of Nature, divine and ele short of a perfect production becos is blaspheer of Hades!"

"The ,

and froh the crack of the door, the pretty

stranger had better not My lady, the princess, had a merry ti, all about this same

pretty one So this is why she breakfasts with us--the second table"

Laodice heard this with a sinking heart This was a strange house in

which to live at no definite status, with a future blank and

inscrutable

"Is it, then, that you are wary of offending the over-nice exactions

of ?" the athlete deravely, "is originally the expression of

the highest exaltation To sing before the highis

reached is an insincerity"

"Alas, Juventius," the girl was saying, "howthe limits of art! Teach broadly and

the fulfilment of your laill not be such a task for the overworked

and irritable gods of art"

"Child!" Juventius cried passionately "Your ignorance outreaches your

presumption!"