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"Now read, will you please"

I lay back in my chair and shaded my eye with my hand

"Do you want any special poeet to 'Listen Beloved,' there is a point in it

I want to discuss with you"

She took the book and settled herself with her back to the , a

little behind me

"Come forward, please It is more comfortable to listen when one can see

the reader"

She rose reluctantly, and pulled her chair nearer an She chose those poems the least sensuous, and the more

abstract I watched her all the time She read "Rutland Gate," and her

voice showed how she sympathized with the hly bred face looked savage! I realized with a quiver

of delight that she is the most passionate creature,--of course she is,

with that father and h, and

she will break through all the barriers of convention and reserve, and

pride

Ah! That will be a es, found it, and began, and when she reached the two

verses which had so interested me, she looked up for a second, and her

lovely eyes werethe book drop in her lap

"That accords with your theory of reincarnation, that souls ot upon the subject it said all es were