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"Ned is a dear boy, and I hope he will keep his illusions long enough to write some nice poetry about them; but do you think it is only in society that he is likely to lose the "Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient conde such phraseology? I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I kno names can alter the colour of beliefs"

She had never heard hiy of affirhtly turns over and colimpse into the laboratory where his faiths were formed

"Ah, you are as bad as the other sectarians," she exclaimed; "why do you call your republic a republic? It is a closed corporation, and you create arbitrary objections in order to keep people out"

"It is not MY republic; if it were, I should have a COUP D'ETAT and seat you on the throne"

"Whereas, in reality, you think I can never even get my foot across the threshold? Oh, I understand what you mean You despise my ambitions--you think them unworthy of me!"

Selden smiled, but not ironically "Well, isn't that a tribute? I think them quite worthy of aze on hiravely "But isn't it possible that, if I had the opportunities of these people, I ht s--its purchasing quality isn't limited to diaht expiate your enjoy a hospital"

"But if you think they are what I should really enjoy, you h for h "Ah, uarantee your enjoying the things you are trying to get!"

"Then the best you can say for et them I probably shan't like them?" She drew a deep breath "What a miserable future you foresee for me!"

"Well--have you never foreseen it for yourself?" The slow colour rose to her cheek, not a blush of excite; it was as if the effort of her spirit had produced it