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"Oh! May I have your definition?"

"Why yes!--of course you , means complete harmony between two souls--like two notes that hly trust and reverence the woman,--the woman must feel the same towards the man And the sense of 'reverence' is perhaps the best andquality But nowadays oman will you find worth reverence?--what man so free fros of our day are often less respectable than the beasts! I can iht be--what it should be--but till we have a very different and ain, Gas silent for some minutes Then he said-"Apparently the spirit of destructiveness is strong in you As 'master of the world'--to quote your oords, I presu on war, you would give them a time-limit to consider and hold conference, with their allies--and then--if they were resolved to begin hostilities--"

"Then I could--and WOULD--wipe them off the face of the earth in twenty-four hours!" said Seaton, calmly--"From nations they should become mere dust-heaps! War makes its own dust-heaps, but with infinitely more cost and trouble--the way of exit I offer would be cheap in corim smile

"Well, I come back to my former question"--he said--"Suppose the occasion arose, and you did all this, what pleasure to yourself do you foresee?"

"The pleasure of clearing the poor old earth of so of the same thankful satisfaction Sir Ronald Ross must have experienced when he discovered the mosquito-breeders of yellow fever and anise national disputes are a sort oftheir fellow-creatures with perverted mentality and disease,--they should be exterested Gwent--"The purlieus of cheap journalis-places of the human malaria-mosquito"

"True! And it wouldn't be a bad idea to stamp theesture which was characteristic of his temperament--"But what is called 'the liberty of the press'(it should be called 'the license of the press') is rows another It's entirely octopus in character, too,--it only lives to fill its stomach"