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His sister's blunt words brought Morton face to face with hiination fired by Viola, hence his discontent, his heat of anger towards the unlovely side of her life It was the memory of her that had kept him half-hearted to the claims of several comely women of his circle whoht to have been given up entirely to bacteria) was filled with the face and fortunes of one as either living a lie or suffering froular and sad predicament for a ht Furthermore, the whole world in which his love lived andwith her he had tried to read some of the journals devoted to her faith, and had found theily printed, slovenly of phrase, and filled with es from Aristotle, Colu in a boy of twelve years old The phraseology, the cant terms, nauseated him The advertisements of "Psychics," "World-faists," and only the devil hiust, added to his already poor opinion of sick humanity Of these Viola now for, the selfish, blatant struggle for success which is reflected in the advertising columns of dramatic journals He ran down each column of "display ads" of The World of Spirit, ti to see a notice of "the marvellous psychic Miss Viola Laht he found these papers shrewdly contrived to take huuarded ler who knows the blind spot in the eyes of his spectators They occupied a field apart from all other periodicals in the world Science, literature, and art concerned thethened faith in "the farther shore" They were as special as a trade-journal--far more so, indeed, for the Boot and Shoe News prints occasional reviews of books, and soes side by side with notes on "Burnishers" and stitching-s, and "séances"--good Lord, how he hated that word!--were alracious s, even as spectators, filled hiirl was a self-deluded fakir at the best--at the worst, an habitual, hysterical trickster, avid for notoriety In either case a tainted, leprous thing--a wonified and wholesome life It orse than folly to permit such a creature to break in on his work, to draw his ; nevertheless she continued to do both these things