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Bennington read to her certain rewritten parts of Aliris: A Romance of

all Time, which would have been ridiculous to any but these two They

saw it through the glae, the girl, too, felt the whirl of that elixir in her veins You

see, he enty-one and she enty: ave him sympathy, which was just what he

needed for the sake of his self-confidence and develop for him in that effervescent period which is so necessary a

concoes in a hundred wild

sche artist paints strange

iest other-isenius The young

writer thinks deep and philosophical thoughts which he expresses in

e; he dreams wild dreaorical tales full of ihts in Rhetoric--flower-crowned, flashing-eyed, deep-voiced

Rhetoric, whoh

the whole world declares her to be false; and then, after a time, he

decides not to introduce a new system of metaphysics, but to tell a plain

story plainly Ah, it is a beautiful time to those ell in it, and

such a funny time to those who do not!

They came to possess an influence over each other She decided how they

should ay, and he