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reefs, he found a spot where he could lie co day-drea blue, and so strange, that he had an inexplicable

sensation of reverence

Noas as though, in watching that aerial weaving and interweaving,

he were assisting at a religious rite He liked it best when the white

day-moon was afloat If he half-shut his eyes, it seemed to hi silver, twin bubbles of

white fire, twin filossamer, twin vials that held the very

essence of poetry Somehow he had always connected her with the moon

Indeed, in her whiteness, her coldness, her aloofness, she seeinity His first secret names for her were Diana

and Cynthia But there was another quality in her that those names did

not include - intellectuality His favorite heroes were Julius Caesar

and Edwin Booth - a quaint pair, taken in coinary conversations which he held with her he addressed her as Julia

or Edwina

Days and days went by and he could discover no sign that she had noticed

hientleman" side of Billy that he did

not try to attract her attention Indeed, his efforts were ever to

efface himself