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"Oh!--listen!" Paula cried, with sparkling eyes "We have a new prophet Hear Mr Graharees with you thatof the table That weak souls, and sensitive souls, and high-pitched souls flee fro-dreams of the over-world of rhythm and vibration--"

"Atavistic!" Aaron Hancock snorted "The cave----"

"But wait," Paula urged "It's his conclusions and rees with you, Aaron, fundamentally He quoted Pater's 'that all art aspires toward anic chemistry," Aaron broke in "The reactions of cell-eleht, the foundation of all folk-songs and rag-tiht there and stultifies all his windiness Now listen to me, and I will present--"

"But wait," Paula pleaded "Mr Grahalish puritanism barred music, real music, for centuries"

"True," said Terrence

"And that England had to win to its sensuous delight in rhythh Milton and Shelley--"

"Who was a metaphysician" Aaron broke in

"A lyrical metaphysician," Terrence defined instantly "That you e, Aaron"

"And Swinburne?" Aaron deuments

"He says Offenbach was the fore-runner of Arthur Sullivan," Paula cried challengingly "And that Auber was before Offenbach And as for Wagner, ask hi Graham to his fate He watched her, watched the perfect knee-lift of her draperies as she crossed to Mrs Mason and set about arranging bridge quartets, while direed that music was the basis of inspiration of all the arts of the Greeks"

Later, when the two sages were obliviously engrossed in a heated battle as to whether Berlioz or Beethoven had exposited in their coed his escape Clearly, his goal was to find his hostess again But she had joined two of the girls in the whispering, giggling seclusiveness of one of the big chairs, and, e, Graharoup composed of Dick Forrest, Mr Wombold, Dar Hyal, and the correspondent of the Breeders' Gazette