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said so in it superior to that of the tint

of the peach She had been reading a book while Clara was balancing

her cash, and she atteh, and the voluround It contained

Shelley's Revolt of Islam

'Have you read Shelley?' said Baruch

'Every line--when I was er'

'Do you read him now?'

'Not much I was an enthusiast for him when I was nineteen, but I

find that his subject matter is rather thin, and his themes are a

little worn He was entirely enslaved by the ideals of the French

Revolution Take ahat the French Revolution contributed to his

poetry, and there is not much left'

'As a man he is not very attractive to ive his treatment of Harriet'

'I suppose he had ceased to love her, and he thought, therefore, he

was justified in leaving her'

Madge turned and fixed her eyes, unobserved, on Baruch He was

looking straight at the bookshelves There was not, and, indeed, how

could there be, any reference to herself