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Early that year, the touch of autu

at sundown from the afternoon life class, Samson felt the lure of its

ton Square

benches, with s were as subtly intangible as the lazy sweetness that melted the

façades of the walls into the soft colors of a drea the Palisades of Jersey, seen through a powdery glow at

evening, and the red-gold glare of the setting sun on high-swung gilt

signs

He felt with a throb of his pulses that he was in the Bagdad of

the neorld, and that every skyscraper was atoward the Mecca of his Art He felt with a stronger throb

the surety of young, but quickening, abilities within himself Partly,

it was the char with the

days, but, also, though he had not as yet realized that, it was the new

friendship into which Adrienne had admitted him, and the new experience

of frank camaraderie with a woman not as a member of an inferior