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"Dear Father Aloysius!" interrupted Morgana, quickly and iive me!--I did not think!--I aswood have the kindest feeling for me!--but--"

"But!"--and Aloysius smiled--"But--it is a little lady that will not be commanded or controlled! Yes--that is so! However this ine that in the rush of commerce and the marvels of science the world is left eest force in nature!"

Morgana's eyes flashed up, then drooped under their white lids fringed with gold

"You think so?" she murmured--"To me, love leads nowhere!"

"Except to Heaven!" said Aloysius

There followed a silence

It was broken by the entrance of a servant announcing that coffee was served in the loggia They left the dinner-table and went out into the wonder of a perfect Sicilian ardens were illumined and the sea beyond, ide strands of silver spreading on all sides, falling over theon certain white flowering shrubs with the sical loveliness of the scene, made lovelier by the intense silence of the hour, held the by one of the slender coluia but the whole Palazzo d'Oro as with the petrified steure co be ht to thank God for eyes to see it!"

"And many people with eyes would not see it at all,"--said Don Aloysius--"They would go indoors, shut the shutters and play Bridge! But those who can see it are the happiest!"

And he quoted-"'On such a night as this, When the sind did gently kiss the trees And they did ht Troilus, hed his soul towards the Grecian tents Where Cressid lay!'"

"You know your Shakespeare!" said Rivardi

"Who would not know him!" replied Aloysius--"One is not blind to the sun!"

"Ah, poor Shakespeare!" said Morgana--"What a lesson he gives us reat, so unapproachable,--and yet!--doubted and slandered and reviled three hundred years after his death by envious detractors who cannot write a line!"