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On his way to keep the appointton de

Laney discovered within hiical experience He

found that, since the evening before, he had been observing things

about hi them to his new friend Little

beauties of nature--as when a strange bird shone for an instant in

vivid contrast to the mountain laurel near his ; an unusual

effect of pine silhouettes near the sky; a weird, seestion of one of Poe's stories implied in a contorted shadow cast

by a gnarled little oak in the light of the er to tell his companion, with full

assurance of her sy Three days earlier he

would have passed theer still was his discovery that he had always noticed such

things, and had remembered them Observations of the sort had

heretofore been quite unconscious Without knowing it he had always

been a Nature lover, one who appreciated the poetry of her moods, one

who saw the beauty of her sreater

beauty of her frown The influence had entered into his being, but had

lain neglected Now it stole forth as the odour of a dried balsah

steals from the corner of a loft whither it has been thrown carelessly

It was all delightful and new, and he wanted to tell her of it