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I started up fro all my previous fear of hinetize nor Cellini!"

"I never MAGNETIZED Raffaello," he said gravely; "he was on the verge of madness, and he had no faith whereby to save hi that his was a genius which would find out things for itself or perish in the effort I let hie of discovery, and he came back perfectly satisfied That is all You do not need his experience"

"How do you know?" I asked

"You are a wo beauty--to love and to be beloved--to wear pretty toilettes and to be admired; and you have a creed which satisfies you, and which you believe in without proofs"

There was the slightest possible tinge of mockery in his voice as he said these words A tuh dreams of ambition, my innate scorn of the trite and commonplace, s bore down upon my heart and overcame it, and a pride too deep for tears arose in ht and weak a thing!" I exclaimed "YOU, who profess to understand the secrets of electricity--you have no better instinctive knowledge of me than that! Do you dee but to be the toys or drudges ofthe for the routine of society, and whose hearts are filled with cravings that no mere human love or life can satisfy? Yes--even oreatness; and if we do soh lack of the physical force necessary for large achievements, that is not our fault but our misfortune We did not create ourselves We did not ask to be born with the over- sensitiveness, the fatal delicacy, the highly-strung nervousness of the feminine nature Monsieur Heliobas, you are a learned and far- seeing ht if you judge me as a mere woman who is perfectly contented with the petty co And as for my creed, what is it to you whether I kneel in the silence of hted cathedral to pour out my very soul to ONE whom I know exists, and whom I am satisfied to believe in, as you say, without proofs, save such proofs as I obtain froh, in your opinion it is evident ainst me, I would rather die than sink into the miserable nonentity of such lives as are lived by the majority of women"