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We had no trouble showing that the reat characters in all lines of endeavor had come from rural spots I think it is the sa town City people are occupied with autoossip--of course, I don'tpersonal, you understand, but it is a fact that they are that way And it is a fact, too, that here our crowd, at least, will get a good book and actually wear it to tatters passing it around That is the sort of education that sticks when it once gets hold of a person"

"I aht," Mostyn adht of the emptiness of his own life in Atlanta, which now, so sun was blazing over the verdant landscape, filling the dewdrops on the grass with red, blue, and yellow light An indescribable aura see corasp of utterance, that soothed and thrilled hi to life in his breast The thought flashed into his consciousness that here with this e vices of his life He could put them behind him--turn over a new leaf, be a new man in body and spirit Perhaps he could kill the teain by sordid business methods; perhaps he could subdue the reluctant intention to nitude of the temptation It really was not too late He couldn't rehter which would bind hi Providence had rescued hier, and meant this encounter as a chance for redemption He could make some sort of compromise with old Jefferson Henderson--a reasonable sum of money to one so hard pressed for funds would not only silence the too active tongue, but win his gratitude and the approval of all businesshe scarcely dared think of in the presence of this pure young girl--the disagreeable case of Marie--but there was no use reflecting over what could not be helped A ht to be pardoned for enerally as much to blame as her companion in indiscretion, especially one of the sort to whom his mind now reverted She had shown her lack of character, if not her pri the money he had offered her She had been troublesoht be persuaded to let him alone His conscience was clear, for he had made no promises to her He remembered distinctly that he had made no effort actually to win her affections How different was this pure raded creature!