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"You have chosen a toilsome and a perilous path, Clara," he resumed,

by and by "I do not wonder that you are, with all your courage and

sanguine trust in your oers, sometimes disquieted, and often

weary"

"Who says that I am ever weary? And did you ever know me to disquiet

hter that

belonged to her sunniest e,

I should have been a devout disciple of Epicurus Don't iine that

my success has not, thus far, a lived upon excitement all my days, I should starve

without it Pleasure, like safety, is the dearer for being plucked

froer!"